Thank you Rolondo - I can only imagine how crazy good the weather & skies are at Las Capmanas. Is there a specific reason u use Win 7 on ur Primary Computer? congrats & tnx agn, Mike

🙃 Having dealt with photo print matters before I can appreciate the mess; nevertheless, some images deserve to be wall hangers. 🤗 Pete

Here ya go: http://lascampanasremote.org/observatory/ Rolando

We tried that once many years ago. Man, that was expensive to have done. Roland

Hi Luke in my opinion APCC has tremendous value for any AP mount. It's definitely worth inserting into your software chain, even if you use it sparingly now. There are too many features to list, but

Hi there Rolondo - I would love to see any pics of ur observatory in Chile. rgds & tnx, Mike PS- Nice Shot. Way to go Howard and Dave!

Amazing work Team! Should find a worthy Professional Print Shop and take orders from the Astro-nuts. 🤣🤣🤣 😎 Pete

Sorry for the silly question, I will soon be taking delivery of a new AP1600 and wish to prepare for its arrival. I am using an AP1200 atm with NINA and the AP ascom platform. This works well for

Lost for words at this incredible picture. Geoff

Mike, That is some sound advice.

Over the last 25 years of owning nice optics, I have learned the hard lesson twice about storing anything in a state with high potential energy for gravity to take advantage of. Once during a 7.2

Store your refractor any which way you want. If you store with lens pointing down, make sure that nothing can fall onto the back of the objective from the eyepiece end. Roland

I am currently designing an observatory and will have limited space inside to store my telescopes. My architect prefers to design vertical storage to occupy less room, but my instincts were to think

I am getting this message upon startup of APCC since updating to v1.9.4.3. It will not allow connection of APV2 driver. I have to restart APCC multiple times to get it to start normally. Not sure what

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:26 PM, christian viladrich wrote: Amazing !! Christian Le 30/03/2022 à 15:29, Roland Christen via groups.io a écrit : Here is another deep sky image taken at our remote

It's probably similar to what's required for the 160 F7 TEC refractor. The 80.8 back focus is achieved with the matching spacer that is added to the back of the QTCC. In the case of the 160F7 TEC,

The site does not show them in stock though: 0.72x Quad Telecompressor Corrector (QUADTCC) - Astro-Physics From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Roland Christen via

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:49 AM, Roland Christen wrote: We have a limited number available, but he who hesitates is ....... required to wait for the next batch. :-) -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 07:52 PM, Roland Christen wrote: I doubt that Stellarvue will be as forthcoming, but I can pretty much know what the design is. At F8 it is the easiest to correct for field

Amazing !! Christian Le 30/03/2022 à 15:29, Roland Christen via groups.io a écrit :