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

There may have been no problem with 3 and 4. I have been designating the higher numbers based on the APCC manual where they’re recommended.

Joe, Just restarting APCC is all that is required. You do not need to power cycle the mount. What was wrong with ports 3 and 4? Any COM port not in use is eligible to be used as a virtual COM port.

Ray, Thanks for the tip on auto-configuration of port selection, I've got it checked. I think I need to remember to power cycle the mount when I'm working on connections, correct? I'll admit the

Thanks. I have printed out your settings and will check ASTAP to see what values I was using. Hopefully once it clears and try it out on real stars. If it works on real stars, I don’t really care

Joe, As I suspected, there are some crazy-high values in the West model's pointing terms. The temporary solution is to turn off pointing correction, but I will make a change to APCC to ignore

Joe, I'll take a look at your logs today, however: > Saturday, Oct. 2: I reset the virtual ports to 20,21 and ran the steps to reconfigure the V2 driver. You don't need to manually

Thanks for the help Sebastien! I see your gear came with a matching dog!! Outstanding!! Sent from Smallbiz Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Jack Huerkamp wrote: [tried file images] Has anyone else been successful in using ASTAP to do plate solving while doing an APPM run? If so, what did you have to do to get ASTAP to work for