The mount won't park itself unless it gets a park command from a 3rd party software. A clock change on your PC does not automatically get sent to the mount by itself, so the mount does not know about

Can i use the gtocp4 with my mach2 gto? I was toying with the idea as that will allow me to connect it with the ASI air pro which does not seem as yet to support the gtocp5. Kenneth

George, That is what I thought. But reading the PDF you provided a link to got me confused when I got to step 6 and the positioning of the DOVELM163 on the Dec Axis. Yours truly, Jack

Jack, No. First you balancing each scope front to back when they are set up exactly as they will be used (and focused), Mark the balance point with blue painter’s tape. Then put them into

George, So you assemble everything on the side to side plate – both scopes and accessories – and then place the dowel rod under the assembly and check the balance point for position the side

Jack, No. Dowel rod under the side-to-side plate. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone: 815-282-1513 (office) Email:

I use Ethernet for my Mach1GTO, CP4. Through the mount cabling includes POE for my Optec focuser, a single USB3 for the three ASCOM devices, and a 12VDC for the cooler. These go to a homemade,

George, I read through the Balancing Side-by-Side procedures you provided a link to and understood everything until I got to Steps 6 through 9. Photos would sure help me visualize what is going

I should have put keypad as a choice in the poll.

APCC pro and PHD2 are used to control all mount movements during my sessions. I was imaging Saturday March 13th into Sunday March 14th, in the eastern time zone. My session continued through 2AM and

Question for Roland - if you are imaging with both cameras simultaneously, how do you coordinate dithers? thanks, b

Internally, mounts operate on UTC time only and don't care about/know about silly constructs such as DST and time zones. I would pull the session's logs from whatever imaging or sequencing program

Last night I was imaging with my QSI683 camera through the AP 130EDF on my Mach1GTO and had an unusual thing happen. I was on my last subframe of the evening, at around 2am and suddenly I noticed that

Hi Luca, First, the primary purpose of starting or ending in a counterweight-up position is not necessarily to save time but to be able to use the same guide star across the meridian. If you are

I use USB to the CP5. I have an Eagle 3 mounted on top of my scope. Its 12 volt power comes from the through the mount power connection, which it then powers all the devices. The USB from the CP5

I have an industrial mini computer near the mount that has RS 232 ports that I use to connect to the mount. Frank

I use USB directly to the Cp4 and CP5 controllers in my observatory. For camera connections I use whatever the camera came with - USB2, USB3 and even serial My workflow to the Mach 2, using a powered

None of the above. I use the "Keypad" as my control computer as a visual observer. For connecting another computer I have successfully used all the other options.

USB to RS-232 on a Mach2 (CP5) because I'm a creature of habit. I am in the backyard, but I don't need anything else. I don't trust WiFi in general and I have read that in particular the CP4/CP5 has

I have an ATS pier as well, and that is truly a lot of metal near a WiFi antenna. Today I used google Remote Desktop for the first time, so I plan to have my laptop on the home WiFi and remote into