Roland Christen wrote: During simulation is the mount actually pointing to the object? How would you know if it was done indoors during the day? When I do it, I use the real mount and a

Thank you Roland.

Joseph, I'm catching up on emails after a vacation. Is this still an issue? If so, can you share your .mlm file?

Jeff, Please contact me at AP. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone: 815-282-1513 (office) Email: george@...

During simulation is the mount actually pointing to the object? How would you know if it was done indoors during the day? Roland

Jack Huerkamp wrote: Mainly image scale, but putting a rough RA and Dec into the boxes so that the program did not have to search the entire sky helped a lot. I assume that when running APPM with

George, this is Jeff, not Mike. I have one Keypad where a couple of the buttons, specifically the "S" and "> NEXT" buttons go dead on me from time to time, at the same time. Everything else works

Thanks Jack I wasn't aware ASTAP was able to do all sky solving by fiddling with the settings, so that's an interesting add -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

Brian, Mainly image scale, but putting a rough RA and Dec into the boxes so that the program did not have to search the entire sky helped a lot. I assume that when running APPM with ASTAP, I will

That's great to hear Jack What was the issue that you fixed - was it your image scale settings?

I received this from Han, the author of ASTAP after sending him one of my PNG images and the astrometry.net solve of it: Hello Jack, It solves see attached screenshot settings. Enter an estimate

Mike, Contact me re: Keypad button issues. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone: 815-282-1513 (office) Email: george@...

Hello Nicholas, I think in your case the first order of business to get your mount up to snuff is to take a 15 to 20 minute run in PHD2 and get a screen shot of the guider graph. Use 2 second

The worm assembly is on a pivot and uses springs to gently push it into mesh. The backstop is set to allow only a few thou of in-out movement which is enough to keep the worm always in mesh. The worm

Jeffc wrote: ➢ A proper bracket would be nice. First, I agree, and love Joel’s work. I did a bit of research and want to correct an impression prior photos may have left if we are

Fwiw Pegasus does sell a way overpriced bracket at least for the UPBV2 which fits no hole pattern I have on my plates. I was suspicious and should have stayed away from that unnecessary expense…

Hi Let me know if there are things that I can do to better resolve this, troubleshooting or answering questions. Let me describe The “Next”, “5”, “0” buttons are “slow” or don’t

Michael, Of course! Yep, and as the mount it can be operated down to extremely low temperature ! Moreover, it is a perfect cold feet heater too! Just very bad for the PA when he mixes yours with the

I didn’t know that. That makes it all the easier for everyone. The improvements in the entire mount software package over the past four years have been amazing. Glad I was able to bring that part

We will have to update that part of the manual. It has been obsoleted since APCC can dynamically configure the ASCOM driver. There is no need to use higher port numbers. -Ray