Joe Zeglinski said: I keep wondering why you haven’t yet printed the actual HELP file. It is very well written and a pleasant read. You can do that with most help files, as I have done.

Hi Linwood, I keep wondering why you haven’t yet printed the actual HELP file. It is very well written and a pleasant read. You can do that with most help files, as I have done. Prints as a

I design, work on and maintain professional observatories for a living. Having a periodic maintenance checklist and a thoughtful critical spares inventory is something ALL of the pro's and more

Linwood wrote: One last question (ok, probably never such a thing)… is there a document that explains more about the meaning of the various model properties. Or maybe what I am asking is

Ray/Linwood Wrote: Have you already read the APCC help section for APPM? There's lots of information in there that can get you started. I read the manual (twice), but probably not the help

I set up and take down my 1100 mount every night that I use it. In doing so I found that running the Y-cable outside the mount instead of through it saves several minutes of setup and takedown time.

No one can tell you that because every setup is different. However, you can try using the model afterwards to see how it performs. If you can reproduce the position of everything, especially polar

I have aborted many image acquisitions by clicking on the abort button in the on the fly section. Granted a plate solve may continue but I highly doubt that the plate solve is the process that does

This was running as a dragscript. I did contact Leo to ask how this would be handled and he stated the camera driver does not accept an abort request when it is taking an image. But I wonder why it

Ray wrote: Have you already read the APCC help section for APPM? There's lots of information in there that can get you started. I read the manual (twice), but probably not the help file, I

Hi Linwood, Have you already read the APCC help section for APPM? There's lots of information in there that can get you started. If you don’t tear down or significantly change your setup, you can

Russ, There are safeguards in the AP V2 driver and APCC that prevent RECALs at inappropriate times, but it sounds like the ASCOM client application (Volager) may have stopped tracking in the middle

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