I have an 1100GTO mount on order and plan to house it in an observatory on permanent pier with imaging in mind. I own an old AP 8" diameter portable pier. Would anchoring this in concrete and

Hello All, Alas, a recent ISS passage and the ISS tracking questions pour in. :-) I guess this is for Ray. Tracking ISS yesterday with APCC / Horizons / AP1200 worked reasonably well. Video from the

It appears the first screen displays RA rate in arcsec/sec but the second screen displays the RA rate in sec/sec? Since there is 15 degrees in 1 hr RA to convert sec/sec to arcsec/ hr would be

Okay, I’ve been playing around with this, both using the Test Tracking and in real-time, albeit in my basement due to the clouds, and I am learning how this works, but I do have one relatively

Hi Bob, Unfortunately, Sky6 has very little support for ASCOM, and it may not support the ASCOM Park operation. However, you can park the mount from the AP V2 ASCOM driver. -Ray

Bob I have an almost identical setup. Mine is: AP900GOTO CP3, The Sky6 serious astronomer, MaximDL6.11, AP Ascom driver ver 5.30.1. I haven't updated the Sky Ascom plug in for a couple of years but I

Hi Max, That feature has been done for over 18 months, having been in successful beta-tests during that time. However, it will be bundled with a few other new features (like support for plate solves

Thanks, John. I've also read that. Park 1 has never been a problem for me, but I'd happily go with Park 4 if something gave me any park options. (I parked the scope today with the handset, but

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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