FWIW I checked mine once after doing a fairly careful align photographically and mine was off about the same amount, maybe a tad less (different directions). Of course, no alignment is perfect so

I have been getting a lot of what I suspect is field rotation in my guided images so I thought I would check my polar alignment using the RA Correction method as described in the manuals. I have a

Hi Aaron, When the CP5 joins a network, the Access Point will be turned off because the Wi-Fi hardware does not have enough resources to support full functionality on both the Access Point and Station

Yes it is everybody's favorite, mine included! During public events at our observatories, I always save Saturn for last, not telling anyone what they will see next. I LOVE the reactions and

You have periodic error in a non-encoder mount. That will manifest itself in a slow back and forth motion in RA. This error is normally a sinusoid which has two places where the star will sit

Very nice. Pretty little planet indeed, everyone's favorite planet. Rolando

Pretty cool Jim. How about sharing some of the capture and processing details. Jeff

Looking for theories to explain occasional dumbbell star images in unguided exposures. I have a long standing variable star monitoring project run through DC3 Scheduler. Recently changed from a C11

Fabulous! 😎 Pete

AP 10” F/14.6 JimP Sent from Mail for Windows 10

There is a tighter tolerance on coordinates when this checkbox is selected. There is no difference between 1.9.0.7 and 1.9.0.11 behavior in this regard. In fact, the final RA/Dec coordinates are

Rouz, I don’t see any warnings in the log snippet you included. The SLEWUNSAFE commands are normal. A SLEWUNSAFE command is one that APCC should directly execute the slew without having to check

Tom, This indicates the driver had a problem creating an object it needs to use, most likely ASCOM utilities. If the error persists, try rebooting your computer. Maybe there was a disk error

Thanks for confirming, Roberto! -Ray

Park 3 is preferred because it is far away from a counterweight-up position, thus giving more time to stop the mount should something be misconfigured. -Ray

Hi Mike, No, if you don't have the real-time RA dec feature, or if you are not using APPM, you are not affected. The only negative effect of 1.9.0.9 is that APPM waits longer than it previously did

Hi Rouz, Yes, as I mentioned earlier, an extra character in the RA response was causing an error converting RA to a useable value. Thus, even the mount slewed to the proper coordinates, the RA value

1200FSA https://www.astro-physics.com/1612fsa You can mount this to any homemade pier that has a flat top plate or if you go the ATS permanent pier route then this:

Luke I believe an option for you is a company called Dan's Pier Plates. They make them for different high end GEM's to bolt onto permanent piers. You may want to check them out. Fernando

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