Another vote of confidence for the 900GTO. Mine is from 2009 and performs brilliantly. I've got 61 pounds on it with a side by side setup. I'm also using apcc pro, which I couldn't live without

Congratulations, Nick! Karen AP

Thank you Roberto! I appreciate your nice comment.

Hi Luca. Nice to hear from you. Thanks!

It is better to connect the USB/serial converter directly to a USB port on your computer and run a Male-Female DB9 cable of the needed length from the converter to the mount. The DB9 cable can be

I do the same thing at -30C Sam :) tony

Thanks everyone. I probably clicked on the wrong thing by the time I added it to the cart. I do have an FTDI based cable (as confirmed by Device Manager and the installed driver) and experienced the

Be careful of cheap Amazon usb to serial. Some say they are ftdi but aren't. Avoid garbage and buy from astro-physics or get a tripplite one. 73

I'll definitely second that! I've had multiple issues with several Prolific USB/serial devices over the years (astronomy and ham radio), and all the problems disappeared immediately after I replaced

In your first post you say you have an ftdi chipset but here you are modifying a prolific driver. Get a real ftdi usb to Seri port. Prolific ports can be problematic. Also, setting nothing in the

Hi, I did a 200 point model yesterday with my new AP1100 yesterday while the moon was out. It dropped to -30C. It was very effective with an average duration of 35 sec / point and no failed

I remember when you posted that shot Nick. It is superb. Roberto

That’s a great image, Nick. Congratulations! Luca

9.603 inches. Richard

Hi, My image of galaxy cluster Abell 1185 appears in an article on William and Caroline Herschel in the March 2022 edition of Sky & Telescope (pp 22-27, image on page 25). The image was taken through

Progress? ... 1. I had plugged the cable into the wrong (bottom) serial port on the GTOCP3 instead of the top one. D'ohhhh. Fixed that. 2. Also, in Device Manager > Ports (COM & LPT) > Prolific

Very Nice.

Hi Ray, Thanks. I just received the trial registration key yesterday and the version I downloaded is: PRO - v1.9.3.1 - 12/26/2021.

Just to be clear, there is not a special "subscription version" of APCC. Everyone downloads the same version of APCC Pro or APCC Standard. It's just that your license's date must be August 1 2020, or

I think for that you need not only the latest version of APCC Pro updated, but the subscription version. In APCC go to Help > View/Update... there ASTAP is listed as a feature of that version. If