I do two things. 1. Twice per year (early Spring and early Fall) I spray an insecticide called Tempo SC Ultra on the outside walls and perimeter of my roll off roof obs. This stuff works great,

Some of the pyrethrin-based insecticides, which tend to be less toxic to mammals have sustained activity. In particular there are sprays or formulations that claim to give one to several months of

I don't have a 175 here at this time, but I did try a customer's 180. It worked fine, but it really needs to reside on an 1100. Roland

Question for Roland. Did you try the big AP175 on the Mach 2? I am pretty sure I remember the 160 in the tests, but can't recall if the 175 was ever attempted. Bill

Hi Linwood You raise a good point about your C14 not having rings. That changes things quite a bit. As to your question: Specifically do some of you have the 16” dovetail, which when set up with

I've been running my club's domed observatory for a while now and one of the things I've added is a large machine/tooling dust cover to the setup while it's not in use. It's breathable (there is

Hello Ray, I have a slight "slop" (similar to backlash) in my RA axis when I apply light pressure in rocking the telescope back in forth, which I believe is due to insufficient mesh between the worm

Knobs up or sideways not a problem. All my springs and clamps still work as they always have – and should. Well, I think so. Haven’t used that mount in a couple of years now. Woody

Good to hear, Joseph. I'll make sure to update my docs to explain the configuration further.

Thanks for checking back. After changing my APCC parameters to match those in your video everything works fine.

I'm the OP and this is exactly the case with mine. Just for people reading this, if you are doing this with the clams down you will not have an issue, however you should try it with the clamps up. It

pretty cool, especially its proximity to the moon.

M Hambrick wrote: Hi Linwood I used to mount my 180 EDT scope while the mount was in Park 3 until Roland suggested that having the mount in Park 2 makes it much much easier to mount the scope. He

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As recommended by Roland, I was able to eliminate the worm play on both axes by adjusting the backstop. I also had a talk with Howard to clarify some details re. the DEC axis and greasing. Thank you

I've been away from my email for much of the week. Is this still an issue? There was a recent update to both NINA and the SMF plugin, so be sure to have those installed.

It's not entirely clear what your full APPM configuration is, but here's what you should generally have: 1. Make sure your local copy of ASTAP is updated 2. In NINA, make sure Enable Server is On 3.

Hi Linwood I used to mount my 180 EDT scope while the mount was in Park 3 until Roland suggested that having the mount in Park 2 makes it much much easier to mount the scope. He was right. The best

Assuming you are using NINA for the image capture, do you have the telescope information entered in NINA (Under Options - Equipment)? Maybe ASTAP needs the focal length in the FITS header for the way

So are you using APPM to control the camera? It sounds like that may be a difference. I only use NINA to control the camera, could not get APPM to work well (camera is too large I think, or ZWO’s