Fernando, Yes, I forgot to mention that. I agree and this was how I first sighted the mount. Very important comment. Then once you get everything set, you know what to look for and things are

I make sure I can see Polaris thru the bore of my 1200 GTO R.A. axis before I put the scope on, fine balance, power up the mount, etc. Fernando

Are you planning on doing astrophotography? If so , you could use a camera , and one of the programs that will provide guided polar alignment… PemPro, SharpCap, Nina. Then once you know the mount

Everyone else has great suggestions.. you could also do a daytime telescope alignment as well (see your manual or web search) using the sun with filter or in twilight to a bright star. This will put

I found it best to sight Polaris thru the mount before putting in the finder scope.

You should be able to set your altitude to your latitude and be close enough to only move east/west to find polaris Brian -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

I agree. It is probably the wrong star. I am a recent adopter of the RAPAS which I think it great by the way and I just kept kneeling behind the mount until I found something that looked goldilocks

I cannot be certain, but its sounds like you may have had the wrong star. I live in bortle 5 and have no issues with Polaris being too dim in my RAPAS. Even with the light on low or medium its still

It's probably the wrong star. Polaris is bright enough to be seen with the reticle on in my Bortle 10 skies. Rolando

I am using the RAPAS for the first time to polar align my Mach2. I live in Bortle 6 skies (suburban Sacramento, CA). My question is that after moving the mount and tripod, I was finally able to get a

It's almost certainly the remote desktop utility not updating your computer unless there is a big enough change. Try to reproduce it when you are directly on the computer. -Ray

Are you using Remote Desktop to access the machine running APCC? I got this also a couple times, but it went away. IIRC the issue is something to with the “remote” machine and windows. Like if

Hi Wayne I find the glInet travel routers to be great for this they have many sizes, features, and price points, this is the least

I'm using this Ethernet switch because it accepts 12V and no need to convert from 12V to 5V. It works

Getting this frequently - FindFreeQacIndex: no free entries! I believe it may be due to a conflict with the new Primaluce Labs Environmental ASCOM driver which reads environmental data from the Eagle

I'm running an Eagle 4S miniPC on top of my 130GTX. It has one Ethernet Port and I'd like to use ethernet to connect to my Mach2 CP5 and my Optect Focuslynx controller. Looking for recommendations for

Thank you Brian. This what I fought, but wanted to be 100% sure. It’s a 10 Micron 1000 HPS. Regards. Aygen

Hi Aygen I think the point is leave encoders on, but don't have any modeling active when you do polar alignment what mount is this? Brian -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio

Thank you Ray. Got it ! So, if there is still no model loaded in the mount it does not matter if the dual axis is on, right ? Or would you recommend to tie it off anyway and have it on afterwards

I do use Remote Desktop, even in proximity to the mount. The mount does move, but the diagram does not update.....only with manual use, not SGP slews, which obviously do update.