Hi Wayne, That might happen if there happened to be a communications issue getting the latitude. Try restarting APCC. -Ray

PS running a Mach2. Latest Driver, APCC and ASCOM

Altitude at park 3 should be 47 degrees. Site is correct. This happened before, not sure what the problem is. Wayne

Barry's is bigger than ours Don Anderson

Wow! Awesome Barry. How heavy is it? Mine is a Hughes-Owens Bamboo with glass window in the slide. It is in as good a shape as when I bought it in 1969. Don Anderson

Congrats Barry, ... on finding that huge Pickett. Years ago, I was looking for one as well, and finally gave up. Settled for finding the Electrical Engineering Pickett model instead. Now, seeing

Yes – that is a 6-foot slide rule on the wall. Couldn’t resist buying it years ago at a garage sale. These used to hang on the blackboard in my high school chemistry class so they could teach us

I used to program the IBM 1620 at the neighboring junior college when I was in high school – unique thing about that machine was that internal storage was in decimal (BCD) rather than standard

MoS2 is very bad for brass or bronze worm gears. The S2 (sulfur) corrodes these metals. Lithium is usually too thin. Try a super lube type grease without sulfur. Rolando

I was in chemical engineering at University of Houston for a couple years, then finished at Texas A&M. At UH we did our Fortran programs on the IBM 360, and punch cards were the only option. When we

We used a Control Data Corp. CDC-6500 with two core processors with 256K of ferrite core memory. The core processors used 60 bit floating point which was pretty good for the 70s. There were 18

Hi Kent, I was at UofT ( Electrical Engineering - University of Toronto) 1965-1970 about the same time as you were in Texas. They showed me boxes of vacuum tubes in surplus storage, that the

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My buddy Tom's Mach1 and my Mach2 compared. Astro-Physics Mach1GTO vs Mach2GTO Mount - a comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hla5MIwYrk tony

I did have my scope well-balanced in both axis. I guided it for a short while as a test for a 5 min sub (image below) then turned it off and went unguided and noticed the stars were of identical

Hi, With my Mach2 in my observatory and travel restrictions, my 2011 Mach1 has been sleep for a few months, so, reading your discussions, it made me want and courage to revisit it. I already had a

Please post a screen shot of the guider graph with corrections showing, and all other details. From that I can tell you if there is anything going on with the mount. Rolando

Joe You said "The U of T had the fortune of getting" Was U of T, Texas or Tenessee? If Texas what years were you there? I was there 1965-69 and also used Fortran punched card programs. And yes, I used

I have been using mach1 and 1100 prior to mach2. I knew I changed mount to mach2 in ascom driver. Let me try again with balanced DEC, as suggested by Roland, to see if the issue is going away.

Agree, I never had any issue with mach1 and 1100, so I think I must have made a mistake here.