Certainly. Rolando

My comment about best practices are aimed at using the mount with the operator there at the mount. I would never recommend setting up an automatic remote system with scope starting or ending up in the

Oh boy. 😱🤕 That's too bad. I actually find myself grieving a bit like the loss of a friend. I wonder how bad the chip is and if it could be masked. I imagine it's languishing in some closet

Will the mach 2 work with a celestron RASA 11”

I don’t think that any of the automation software work well with the AP counterweight up and the delayed meridian flip functionality. I always set a separate item in the automation softare for the

Ha! That makes a lot more sense.

A appreciate that, and I believe I did not know that. The case Scopeguard made for it way back when cradled the whole assembly, so I never tried separating it. (I need the exercise

Unless you're using automation software like SGP. I just had a back and forth with Ray and Jared (SGP), Ray here in the ap-gto forum, and Jared on the SGP forum. Neither would commit to saying APCC

Yes, you are probably reading it wrong. In the statement below I did not say anything about a permanent setup being less stable. What I meant was, if you are going to build a permanent system with a

You would be making a mapping run all the way from the "correct" side thru the meridian to the "upside down" side. And you would do this on both sides of the meridian. Then the model will work when

Roland, You've got me confused with that statement. Are you staying the Eagle is more stable for a 180mm refractor than a permanent setup? Am I just reading your comment wrong? Thanks, Eric

Last I heard the person who bought that lens managed to drop it and chip the glass. I don't recall the name anymore. Roland

The Mach2 major parts have the following weights: Base - 12 lb RA axis - 13.2 lb Dec axis - 17.2 lb The mount can be separated from the base by removing 6 screws. Actually only 4 are really

I don’t yet have my AP1100 (comes soon). I’ve never used a german equatorial mount, so I’m clearly getting ahead of myself. I hope to use the APPM tracking model with APCC for photometry with

Hey Roland. Yes, you called it your "Mars Lens". I made a straight through bino-friendly (the old Celestron viewer) OTA around it with a Parks fiberglass tube (in retrospect, the fiberglass was not a

Mojo, You do realize that the Mach1 can also be divided into two pieces. As I recall you just remove 6 bolts. It only takes a minute. Woody

🤣 just a lot lighter than the Mach2

I watched all 1 hour and 16 minutes of the video. It seems like this one is geared more for the APCC users with more experience. I would be interested to see something more like a getting started with

yep, I rem,ember doing that with my Nikon camera and Tri-X film. Whatever happened to that 7"F15 lens? It was one of the first lenses we ever made. Rolando

Yes indeed, it's about the right focal length for that object to fit in my little APS sensor. 1312mm +- Rolando