Hi MJB87, Thanks for the info, I was wondering one could get the job done without a planetarium program. Regards, Don

I agree the color saturation isn't as deep as images I made with an ST-8XM and Astrodon filters, and I'm disappointed in that. It seems difficult to get deep reds instead of them having an orange

Very nice image, BUT I'm still not convinced that a color camera has a future for me in astro-imaging. I did a 10 minute RGB with a CCD and compared it to a 30 minute CMOS color image. I prefer the

Thanks, I didn't recognize itat first. I too have had good success with combining full-color and Ha subs on a one-shot color camera, in my case, an ASI-1600MC Pro. Here's my IC443 with 4 hours

I've been imaging with the Mach1, AP900 and AP1200 unguided since APCC Pro came out. 6 minutes max unguided has been typical for the Mach1 with the 130GT, but I have gone 8 minutes before with my

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My understanding is that the MinMo parameter is hard coded to be 0.25 pixels on the AAP. If you are using a guide scope instead of an off-axis guider, you might have an +/- 1 arcsec (or more) of

Thanks for posting John. Very nice image. Even taken in a fairly light polluted environment it came out well. Images like this make the decision to move away from a OSC camera more difficult. Glad

Is there a link where we can see the image? --- Mike

You are correct Mike. They are the older design CW's. tony On 6/3/2021 10:02 AM, M Hambrick wrote:

The following is my post to our clubs Facebook page. (Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas) An example of fairly fast image acquisition with a OSC CMOS camera. I'm trying to get efficient with my time

There is only one way that the keypad can override external instructions: If you have the keypad guide rate set to 1x sidereal but have an external guider set at some lower rate, then if you use the

The keypad does not send anything to the mount during guiding, nor does it modify any outside commands sent to the mount, whether they be slewing or guiding commands, regardless of what app is sending

Thanks Roland, I made that errant "assumption" because I observed the AAP guiding program was sending corrections double the necessary "pulse" to the mount - and I had already backed off the pulse

Hi Linwood. I was also concerned about the 2.75" vs. 2.67" back focus and which one I should use. I called Tele Vue and talked with David and asked him which number I should use for a KAF-16200 sensor

Great post John, thanks for the perspective. TJF Mobile

No problem PM me anytime. Do you need my email address? Don Anderson On Thursday, June 3, 2021, 09:24:28 a.m. MDT, Andrew Jones

Thanks for the quick response- appreciate it.

Not critical in your case. Rolando

I have an AP1100 in a permanent observatory on top of my garage parked in position 4. During the past 3 years, I've only imaged about 120 hrs per year. I read in the manual to use the keypad to move