Don, Ray, thanks for your continuing advice. Soon as it stops raining I'll go at it again. I use a single monitor, but the warning window might have popped up under something else. I have seen it

Hello Ray, Yes, that would be great. At high magnifications it is required to have additional relative corrections on top of the tracking. Maybe these corrections could even come from a guiding tool

Through most of middle and high school I used a circular slide rule. In senior year I used money from my grocery store job to buy an HP45. When I got to engineering school, one professor insisted that

Am I correct that this feature is the same functionality Roland used via the keypad on the Mach2 to build a model only along the path of the target to be imaged? If so that sounds like a big win for

Impressive side-by-side Mike. Thanks! Jeff

Bob The pop up warning window may be off your monitor. Do you have a dual monitor setup? Sometimes if you happen to be using only one of the screens in a dual monitor setup, some pop ups won’t show

In the "cleaning up" domain.... Back in October during the Mars opposition, a friend told me about Topaz Labs DeNoise AI that removes noise and sharpens images.

Quite the striking image you have there, Ron. Karen AP

the STUFF is there - I couldn't resist cleaning it up a bit. Before and After. -- Ron Kramer https://www.facebook.com/Ron.R.Kramer

Bob, Nothing should happen immediately because a popup window should show a warning that you should not use Park 1. Parking won't start unless you accept that window. If you didn't see that warning

Horizons continuously slews to new RA/Dec coordinates, so the A-P mount hand controller moves probably won't have much of an effect. The drift could be from changes in the orbit of ISS. In a future

It could be a typo in the units. Remember that one RA sec/sec is 15 arc-sec/sec. I'll fix that in the next build, but it should not affect the tracking. -Ray

REALLY NICE ROLAND I had APOD contact me out of the blue asking if they could post this image. I forgot to reply until I read this, https://www.astrobin.com/full/bzte5l/0/ -- Ron

I use my 1992 vintage A-P portable 8-inch pier with my 1100GTO mount. It is rock solid, even with a 180 EDT scope, 16 megapixel camera, and piggybacked guide scope attached. I set up and take down my

Just to be clear, the first image was during real-time using the regular tracking, the second was using Test Tracking.

Ray, Until this morning when I installed the new AP driver, TheSky included setting tracking rates and parking in positions 1, 2, or 3 in its Telescope/Options menu. To my surprise, these options

Probably could be made to work but is it worth the effort? Don Anderson

My understanding is that the diameter is more significant than the thickness of the tube. Why not just pour a 12” diameter concrete pier with a Dan’s pier plate and AP adapter? That would be

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