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Re: Interesting Behavior with APCC Pro and Pegasus Astro UPBv2

Wade, couldn't you set up your automation run to start at full darkness, say 60 minutes after dusk? Then prep APPM to be ready to run at dusk. Just after dusk you would only need to click "Start" in

By Ray Gralak · #78144 ·

Re: Interesting Behavior with APCC Pro and Pegasus Astro UPBv2

" Or, if you are in a mobile setup, just model a few declination arcs around the target that you are imaging. It won't take very long to create the arcs." I know that it won't take very long, but it

By W Hilmo · #78143 ·

Re: Mach2 failed to meridian flip

Thank you Marcelo, I have had that happen in the past, but it was obvious what had happened and it was my own setup fault. My rotation angle was off a bit and I was in bed when it needed to be

By Terri Zittritsch · #78142 ·

Re: Interesting Behavior with APCC Pro and Pegasus Astro UPBv2

If you have a permanent setup you would just model the entire sky as you always have. The only change would be that you might want to increase the slider in APPM that controls the number of points in

By Ray Gralak · #78141 ·

Re: Mach2 failed to meridian flip

The only time I have had a failed meridian flip with my Mach2 and SGP was because the plate solve that SGP requires failed due to clouds. That said, the sequence was aborted at the time (I'm using

By Marcelo Figueroa · #78140 ·

Re: Interesting Behavior with APCC Pro and Pegasus Astro UPBv2

Great. I'm looking forward to it. On the subject of automation, does APPM have any kind of an API that would make it possible to invoke it from a script with the sample points for the target?

By W Hilmo · #78139 ·

Re: Mach2 failed to meridian flip

Thank you Ray, I will contact SGPro folks to see what they have to say. That software gets updated frequently and I'm on their beta 4.0 64bit version so maybe this is a new issue. Terri

By Terri Zittritsch · #78138 ·

Re: Interesting Behavior with APCC Pro and Pegasus Astro UPBv2

Hi Wade, The Dec-Arc modeling feature has been well tested for over a year and a half. As mentioned previously, it will be in APCC Pro version 1.9, which will be available soon. The Dec-Arc modeling

By Ray Gralak · #78137 ·

Re: Mach2 failed to meridian flip

Hi Terri, The ASCOM log file does not show any attempt by SGPro to issue a slew command to do the pier flip. -Ray

By Ray Gralak · #78136 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

We made two of them. One is in Chile at our remote observatory. The other is here in our AP observatory. Rolando

By Roland Christen · #78135 ·

Mach2 failed to meridian flip

Hi, My Mach2 failed to meridian flip last night.. I've looked at the logs and nothing jumps out at me. I was using SGP as well, and normally meridian flips are done with little drama but best I can

By Terri Zittritsch · #78134 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

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By michael mccann · #78133 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

He made it I would imagine... :)

By Bill Long · #78132 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

Hi Rolando Who makes a 12” fiber Maksutov. I don’t see many over 8” listed. Cheers

By michael mccann · #78131 ·

Re: 119FSA attachment

Thanks George, that worked out well. Pete

By Pete Mumbower · #78130 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

Good to know! 🙂

By Bill Long · #78129 ·

Re: AP1100 park position question

If the price difference is not large, one may as well go for the 1500# column. As they say, how big is big enough! Don Anderson On

By Don Anderson · #78128 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

Yeah balancing the Mach 2 has been a breeze. I will get the 12.5 ready and test it out and see how it does. It is a truss design, I can leave the shroud off if you think that will help out.

By Bill Long · #78127 ·

Re: More APPM Results -- Can Someone Help Me Understand This?

I don't believe USNO B1.0 is even available for download from USNO anymore. One may be able to get it somewhere else. In any case, if one is looking for super accurate plate solves, the latest and

By Don Anderson · #78126 ·

Re: Mach 2 + 12.5" AGO iDK?

Bill, I had that combo along with a FLI4040 and big FLI filter wheel with MMOAG and it was fine.

By Wayne Hixson · #78125 ·

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