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

GTOCP3 here, so USB direct from my NUC-like miniPC to a 14 year old Prolific-based USB to serial adaptor that plugs into the CP3. Somehow, this old adaptor has managed to survive winters and summers

I still have my Pickett rules, A pocket size 6" and two 12", all in leather cases. Surprisingly, after more than fifty years I still remember how to use most of the scales! Richard

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:07 AM, Ray Gralak wrote: Hi Luca, It's not a big deal either way; we are only talking about two or three slews per target. But then again, neither is a Meridian flip, which

Which mount would that be? Periodic error has nothing to do with Dec, only RA. If your mount requires Dec corrections, that indicates your polar alignment should be adjusted. Dec adjustments should

I have this mount and use it for imaging. Balance seems to be really important but a bit difficult to do. I have backlash of 2 seconds in Dec and when I image with Voyager, it takes a couple of starts

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Backlash will be on the order of arc second, so it realistically won't have any effect on pointing. It can also be mitigated on that mount with careful adjustment, however it is really only important

Thinking about purchasing an AP 600 E GOTO for visual observations of double stars with my AP 155 F/7. Everything about the Mount sounds good except the seller says it has significant declination