Hi Howard, Thanks for the info. I thought I might have add a card with serial ports. I’ll go that route. Thanks for your advice. Regards, Don Gaines

You want to enable DEC compensation here This adjusts the guiding based on your sky position, which doesn't change (unless you are going to say you have a space telescope) >>>I realize this is more a

Can I attach ADATRI directly to Losmandy HD tripod? I think I can do it with 3 1/4" screws, not receommeded 5/8" ones. Is there any concern by doing so? Yanzhe

Hi Brian, For the DEC, yes, you recalled right, Lowpass2. For RA, I have Hysterersis selected. I see there's also the possibility to select lowpass2 for RA, but I believe I read somewhere not to use

A few weeks ago, I posted a thread where I noticed that my Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox V2 was reporting temperature incorrectly, which potentially affected the tracking model. I also noticed that

My experience with TCP comes from 30 years of telecommunications and robotics engineering. My primary concerns are much more with Layer-1 of the OSI model (cables, connectors) and Layer-2 (Ethernet

Seb i seem to recall you using lowpass2 in PHD which is the correct algorithm for high res encoders -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

If a person is going over 2m or so between the mount and the PC, I would avoid using the USB port on the CP4. -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

If your PC doesn't have a native RS-232 serial port and you need to go 15' (or even 50') it would be much-better to combine a long serial cable with a short USB-to-Serial adapter at the PC. Serial can

Hello Roland, Howard, Thanks for the heads-up. I will hover to the PHD2 forum with this additional info as you suggest. Strange thing is while I created the guiding profile, I did check the precise

Hi Sebastien, Howard has been going thru your log files and discovered some problems with your PHD setup: "PHD2 is indeed commanding moves of 2 – 3 arc-seconds, all of them south. It is also

I use the default settings for the embedded phD in the asi air pro for guiding. There are fewer settings but it usually works Without tinkering.

Not sure where you got that from... Communication link reliability has little to do with the underlying protocol granted it is used in the proper context, well managed and used within a properly

Using the supplied serial cable with a USB to serial converter, even the FTDI unit that we sell, will still be limited in its reliability to that of USB. Chris is referring to a native serial port on

OK, thanks. I'll check out the 1.11 version and experiment tonight. I use APCC and APPM. My normal mode of operation is to slew to the east with CW UP (based on APCC limits allowing this) and track

Hi Michael, I'm one of the contributors to NINA and have been using my Mach1GTO+CP3(V2) with it for over 2 years. It works fine. Plenty of other uses use it with a CP4 and CP5 and that's also fine. It

Could you expalin the sequence of setting that up with the ASI. PhD2 is an old friend.

Ok, thanks .I'll work on the USB to ASI AIR Pro connection. I'll check to see If I have an honest to goodness FIDI chip cable. I have an iPad, which I could use in place of the Windows emulation.

I recently decided to try N.I.N.A. as a possible replacement for SGP which I have used for years. Was wondering if the AP community has any issues with using NINA with respect to meridian flips,

Hi Christopher, My computer has no RS-232 (Serial I think) ports, just USB. Would the 15’ serial cable that comes with the 1100GTO mount along with the Astro-Physics Serial to USB converter,