Nicholas, Please show us several good pictures of your guide scope setup including how it's mounted to either your main scope or mount. Does your guide scope bracket have 3 or 6 thumbscrews

Hi Nicholas I'm a little confused/concerned about these large and fairly instant jumps in DEC I see it happened a couple of times. I don't see it affecting RA, so it looks to me like something is

Hello Nicholas, The good news is that your mount is working fine. Both the RA periodic error curve and the Dec backlash curve are well within reason for this old mount. I don't see any sign of

When we had this problem, it was one of the handpaddle batteries. Call George at AP and he can send you the right part. If I remember correctly, it was the wired battery. Jodi

Alex - were you guiding during this period, and if so can you provide the guidelog from that night? I"m wondering if somehow it may have locked on to a different star, or something happened during

Would love to see a picture of the side by side setup. I have thought of doing something similar with my 900. Thanks, Scott

Sorry i'm a bit late to some of these comments >>>>Another very important thing to know about PHD2: If you manually rotate the camera after you calibrate PHD2 you need to calibrate it again. If you

SkyTrack 1.5.1 is now available with continuous tracking for those mounts capable of it. I am trying it out inside with my Mach2, and it seems to work very well. Of course, the real test will be

I wish it was that simple. Michael Best wishes, Michael

Fernando, Not only did I loosen the clutches, but I then retightened them. This rig never moves out my observatory! Michael Best wishes, Michael

>in case you are wondering the GA was from the main imaging scope but now guiding is being performed w the small guide scope For these tests it really is best to keep everything the same (i.e. don't

I can’t tell what you might have done wrong given the screenshots, but there will be an update to APCC available soon that can use the new Horizons website format. -Ray

Tom, The setting you should configure is the Flip Offset, which moves the mount's flip point East of the meridian limit by the number of minutes you set. This gives the imaging application (SGPro) an

Hi Joseph, I've been out in the boonies again for the past week so have been catching up on this thread. It seems you have been having some general issues with APCC that have been sorted out with a

I still have my setup with AP 600 and Nikon 500 lens. JimP Get Outlook for iOS

Me as well!! JimP Get Outlook for iOS

Hi folks, I seem to be having issues with getting SGPro and APCC setup for successful meridian flips. In all cases, the mount stops tracking before the meridian limit is reached. There seem to be two

For what it’s worth, I’ve seen some pretty impressive imaging recently coming from an RH305 / IMX455 chip combo. Seems like that is a well-matched configuration. Looking forward to seeing future

Ray, I did these steps and for some reason I'm getting the following error and cannot connect system. I followed the steps you provided, with my inputs below. When I selected the text, I'm

so this is a development. Darn. I am taking things down and just discovered that after balancing I did not tighten up the RA clutches tonight at all. arggh. not sure how i missed that one. I feel it