Thanks, Fernando, Per Ray, if you have APPMPRO you do not need it, since the functionality is included and IIRC even in APPM standard. Shailesh

https://www.astrobin.com/cnsikb/0/ Shot on Monday night on the Mach2 mount. Not the best transparency and heavy light pollution as well as smoke from western fires, but I did manage to capture some

Hi Christopher, I have a very similar setup as yours after you get the AP1100AE: I have the AP1100AE. I was imaging on Friday night which started out pretty calm but near midnight the winds

Glenn, Contact me. It is likely that the keypad will need to come in for repair...sounds like the key switch. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone:  815-222-6538 (direct

I have been a major critic of APCC over the last several years due to its poor tracking performance on my 16" RC w/1600AE mount and plate scale of 0.57 arcsec/pixel. So it was with great enthusiasm

I’ve been using the keypad with my Mach1 mount for a few years with no issues until last night when the third row of buttons < S > stopped responding. It was independent of the current menu mode

Christopher, You’re most welcome. …and you, please be safe. Enjoy! Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone:

Thank you Mr Whitney, Mr Christen. That link on counterweights was enlightening. When I had seen images of setups with many counter weights, I had assumed it was because the users didn't want to

Slew speed has nothing to do with dynamic response. I would suspect that the 1100 non-AE mount would have more wind resistance than the Mach2 simply because of the larger worm wheel and heavier

Wow. Extremely cool. Thank you.

The number at the bottom of the chart is in seconds, so for approx. 900 second run the Dec had one correction, the RA had 4. Correction pulse was sent only when the error exceeded 0.3 arc seconds. So,

Christopher, You both need more counterweights to improve performance. See: https://www.astro-physics.info/tech_support/accessories/mounting_acc/balance-to-optimize-guiding.pdf Regards,

Thank you Mr Christen. That helps me understand the benefits and differences of each of your Mach 2 and 1100 non-AE mounts which are similarly priced. If I may summarise my understanding: A Mach 2

I'm not familiar with Maxim, so cant decipher the charts... but about how often do you find you are sending a guide pulse? I.e.- With the encoder are you requiring a guidecorrection every few

I was actually on the list for the 1100 from last year but declined purchase in January when my name came up. I had just purchased a 900GTO and to be honest it is an exceptional mount and does

APPM solving using ASTAP has been great. I did nothing to the settings either. Built a model at 0.87"/px and 0.6"/px and both times it worked like a champ.

Here are the zipped files. I copied all the logs just to be safe but the ones that matter are the one with time stamp around 8:11pm on 8/31/21 I had to use google drive because the APCC file is too

Geoff, APPM just starts ASTAP with the settings you have configured on APPM's tab. Either way, ASTAP is doing the plate solving, not APPM. In my testing, ASTAP seemed to be a very finicky plate

Ray, I did review the images from the failed solves. The images from the failed solves will solve if I use ASTAP directly. The 30+ model run finished fine with only a failed couple of solves due to

Yep I am sure but I will redo it later and post. Sorry about not using the APCC log zipper, I wasn't aware that it existed.