Planewave is leagues better than that scope. No offense.

Bruce All PW Corrected Dall-Kirkhams come with a manual Hedrick focuser, but PC control of the focuser, including temperature compensation is about an added $1000US. You can add that at a later

I am considering all options like these, including the Optec secondary fastFocus system. Thanks

Hello Roland, This is a custom made dewshield I think. Made of Polyoxymethylene (POM) Delrin, Kocetal, Celcon etc... I would like to make my own. We don't have frost here but lot of humidity, f.e.

Why not lock the mirror and add an Optec or Starlight Instruments focuser on the back? -- George Prineville, Oregon

Excellent. ASTAP has become much more popular because of its speed and reliability. -- George Prineville, Oregon

Thanks for your input, Gary.....appreciate the suggestion. I will check it out. Bruce

Bruce, another suggestion would be the Astro-Tech/TPO/GSO 14" RC OTA. I have the 16" version. It has excellent optics and the truss design is very stable and strong. The focuser that comes with it is

You’d need another Ford F150 for a counterweight….. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Glad to hear it's working. Windows is picky about USB drivers. The fundamental rule of thumb is, install the driver software BEFORE plugging in the equipment. Maybe if finally figured out what driver

Heya Mike, Finally got a chance to try this. The first time I connected the solar guider it wouldn't show up as any port and was throwing an error. Unplugged and replugged back in and it came up as

Hello all, I recently did some more extensive tests to isolate the Mach2 WiFi issues I've had and got some interesting results. First, my field setup: A PC with APCC Pro runs the mount. My MacBook

It looks like it would place the eyepiece upside down if you mounted on the left.

Hello everyone, I was watching Tony's (aka Harley Davidson) latest and much useful videos about his new Mach2 (lucky guy, mine is scheduled for delivery in January) and one of them (ref.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

Thanks for chiming in Dale. This is exactly what I am looking for. I am in need of understanding 1.11 builds of NINA as I am still using 1.10. Getting the astrophotography capture software to interact

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I see $12,500.

The Planewave 12.5 is right up your alley then.

Does that mean that it will no longer be necessary to use an external program such as SGP to capture images for modeling? Not a problem for me, I use SGP with ASTAP as my imaging program and also