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Re: Help Parking AP 900 in TheSky #ASCOM_V2_Driver

This probably doesn't help with your issue, I have an undated AP document that advises the previous Park 1 position has been relegated to obsolete status and replaced by the new Park 4 position. This

By John Shutz · #77143 ·

Help Parking AP 900 in TheSky #ASCOM_V2_Driver

I run my AP900/CP3 setup from MaxIM DL 5.24 and TheSky6 (yes, I know.) All worked fine until I decided to download the current AP driver 5.3010 and the current ASCOM plugin for TheSky5/6,

By Bob Gillette · #77142 ·

Re: Running APMM with Moon

Thanks very much for the advice. My apologies for the APPM in the title -- I keep getting it all confused.

By mjb87 · #77141 ·

APCC model like Mach2

Ray, When is the Dec arc tracking model coming out in APCC? I would like trying with my AP1100 Thanks Max Mirot

By Max Mirot · #77140 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Ray, Thanks, Right now I have Auto-Connect set to EXT as I am using APCC to initialize the mount. I assume I will need to set Auto-Connect to YES since I only have one location programmed into the

By Jack Huerkamp · #77139 ·

Re: Bench testing / learning APCC with JPL Horizon for ISS

Hi Gert, No, sorry there is not. The best and only way to practice is with the mount connected. With Horizon issuing moves to the mount, you can see in advance where it is pointing and ensure the

By Ray Gralak · #77138 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Hi Jack, You can do that if you: 1. Turn off the time synchronization option in the AP V2 ASCOM driver 2. If you use APCC, turn off time synchronization in APCC. 3. Always initialize the mount with

By Ray Gralak · #77137 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

I woke up this morning and started thinking again about the issue with daylight savings time and my AP1600 mount/keypad. I know that can be dangerous! The sky does not care if I am in standard

By Jack Huerkamp · #77136 ·

Re: Which GTOCP* connection do you use?

No problem with laptop. Problem is with the ultraportable asi air pro .... which, otherwise works beautifully with a minimum dangling wires.

By Kenneth Tan · #77135 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Me too. takes 60 seconds to make the biannual change in the keypad. Don Anderson On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 06:44:38 p.m. MDT, Jack

By Don Anderson · #77134 ·

Re: Which IPad

Aloha Jim, I have an older iPad2 that I have been using with Sky Safari for the last 4 years or so (even with a cracked display due to dropping it last year at night). I didn't like using the

By John · #77133 ·

APCC Help File

I want to get a hard copy of the APCC help file, and since it is so many pages I would like to get one of the local printing services to do so. The help file is copyright protected, and the reputable

By M Hambrick · #77132 ·

Re: Which GTOCP* connection do you use?

Aloha All, I connect to the Mach 2 via Ethernet to the laptop and I really like it. Haven't used anything else since I got the mount about 6 months ago! No connectivity issues John

By John · #77131 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Jack, Ah. And as I mentioned, I didn’t have success running my Celestron Alt/Az mounts set to UT either. Another “First World” problem. There are worse problems than changing to DST

By Woody Schlom · #77130 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Woody, When I posed a question about this issue on the SkyTools forum, Greg Crinklaw responded that his program is set up to handle the changes to daylight savings time automatically – just use

By Jack Huerkamp · #77129 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Woody, Maybe there is something unique with how Greg Crinklaw has programmed SkyTools. When I had the keypad set to UT, everything worked as it should as long as I did a slew using the keypad.

By Jack Huerkamp · #77128 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

By Jack Huerkamp · #77127 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

Jack, Interesting. I’ve found the opposite. I too got tired of dealing with Daylight Savings and set all my EQ mounts to UTC as I found that easier. And that includes my AP Mach-1. I

By Woody Schlom · #77126 ·

Re: AP 1600, Universal Time and Connecting to Auxiliary Astronomy Programs for Control

I have no idea what "Auto DST" in SkyTools means. Generally a planetarium app should make issues surrounding time transparent to the user and not have to present these time conversion options that can

By Dale Ghent · #77125 ·

Bench testing / learning APCC with JPL Horizon for ISS

Hello all, Is there a way to play with APCC and JPL horizons without mount connection to practice for ISS? I mean some way where the software emulates the mount and allows me to run the JPL ephemeris

By drgert1 · #77124 ·

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