Are you at Rusty’s by chance? If so, say hi to Dennis and Dianne for me. Regarding the time zone issue, if your computer is 100% dedicated to the observatory, you might consider setting it up on

Come to think of it, and I forgotten until you mentioned it, NINA asks whether to sync ‘NINA to mount’ or ‘mount to NINA’ . And I know I chose ‘NINA to mount’. I guess it should be the

I honestly can't explain why there's a difference between an external app such as NINA telling the driver to park, and the driver's own park button giving different results. I would think that both

You know that might be. I’m living in New Mexico, but so close to Arizona my computer always tell me my time is an hour earlier. I’m out in the countryside where I get my time from cell/data and

Howard Hedlund wrote: Don't park with other software. APCC is already open anyway. Use APCC to park your mount. I’ll add one flavor onto this. I have the APCC park default set to 3, which is

Hi Tom, Just a few brief thoughts: Park is a state. (as opposed to a State Park) Park means that the motors and their encoders are no longer energized. Nothing more. The mount can park, or can be

I am see/clearing frequent errors on the AP1100. I rebalance last night. It did not help. Load is AP Honders and a camera. Log attached Suggestions? Thanks Max Mirot

NINA just tells the ASCOM driver, essentially, "Park the mount". It's up to the driver and mount controller to get the mount into the park position that is configured in the ASCOM driver. NINA and

When you're off by 15 degrees in RA it always means that your local time is off by 1 hour in that particular application. Could be time is wrong, could also be daylight savings is set wrong. For every

Hi I believe the manual says try to unpark and park with AP Ascom or APCC. Last night I started the mount and connected with NINA. This was my first tracking session with this mount, so this a

Hi Tom, My guess is that the mount was already parked in position near the zenith, so Voyager, seeing the mount was already parked, didn't try to park again. The mount could have parked itself at its

PNG files won't have the data (RA DEC) that FITS headers contain. Yes ASTAP is best and fastest. Yes works with NINA and APPM. I had some hiccups - I think bin2 was the answer. APPM model is the

I would be interested to know the answer, however you are correct... a pempro curve is not too tough to generate... and fun. 😀

Sure that makes sense. I read the manual a year and a half ago. That how long I have been using this configuration without change to the scope or camera. You saved me again Roland. Thanks Max

Yes, that's by design. For fine balance you need to use the gear lever to disengage the gears. But please read the manual! It is important to always release the gears ONLY at Park 3 position. Roland

APCC reads the mount’s mechanical position in both axes and returns that relative to each axis’ offset value to the 3DViewer. The axis offset value is what gets saved when the 3D viewer is synced.

Both my RA and Dec no longer turn freely after loosing the clutches on my AP1100. Another word it takes a little force or some lbs of misbalance for them to turn What am I missing ? Max

The way PEMPro works, you can store the curve on your laptop and load it onto the same CP4 at any time. However, when you change CPs, I would worry that the timing would not be the same. I will have

I would have to let Ray take a look. Rolando

Every time a new CP3/4 is placed on a mount, a new curve has to be generated and stored in that CP3/4. "My advice is always free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Observatory