Mike, Was the pier collision you mention in a counterweight-down, or counterweight-up position? If it was counterweight-down, do you recall the circumstances? -Ray

Hi Brad, The August 7th model looks fine. I don't see anything wrong with the pointing terms. It's possible to have +/- thousands of arc-secs in the HA term, depending on the flexure, scope

Thanks Chris. I am totally on board with Team Two Mounts. If AP ever makes that AP400AE mount, I will upgrade to Team Three Mounts.😄

Good call-out. Also, if you own mounts that auto-mesh and your friends are having issues, be mindful of this. I completely forgot all about meshing needs for some of the older mounts. 😳

This is probably something worth mentioning to Leo via a support request. Regardless of that, you can disable sync/rcal in Voyager entirely: Just check the box for "Not Sync Mount on solved

I always use a model if I'll have the gear out for more than one night. When I'm doing a single night only, that's usually me testing some gear out working out some kinks and the model wouldn't be

Apologies, there’s a misleading sentence my fingers failed to translate right from my brain: >> Last time out I built a model. I think I'm not supposed to use that model tonight when not in a

Could someone give me a sanity check. I image with a tear down and set up nightly. I do it from fixed pavers that gives me a fairly good polar alignment but not precise (tonight I was unusually close

It would seem to me that Voyager is instructing the mount to go to the park position as you have observed. It has not issued an abort to the plate solving routine first. Normally when you want to stop

Data looks great Bill. Pinpoint stars to the corners! I've got my name on the M2 list. Seeing the mount perform like this with twice the load I'll probably ever put on is pretty dang impressive. I

All, Running APCC on an AP1600 with CP4. While running Voyager last night I observed something interesting. I was testing my shutdown procedure for cloudy weather to verify it works properly. So

How old is the modeling you are using? (you mention 1 year). It may be necessary to have to redo the model every so often, especially if there are drastic temperature changes, like if you did the

It's kind of expensive to just keep as a spare, but with price no object, I agree in principle! But my mount sits in the observatory and never goes anywhere and the cable never gets exposed to light,

The manual might be a bit out of date - something we will have to fix. Balance the axes for best performance. Roland

But doesn't the manual (for the Mach1) say to balance slightly counterweight heavy?

I have some strange model weirdness going on the last few nights. I am suddenly getting very large HA Offset terms in my model, with correspondingly bad results. It's the same equipment, and the only

Hi Alex I am not yet using APCC to control my mount, but I will relate the behavior that I have observed on my 1100 GTO (Non-AE) with the Keypad controller. When I first got the mount I set up safe

I dont doubt you Chris, but curious what goes wrong with the y cables?

Thanks! I should have the color version done sometime next week.

Or two mounts. 😎