I agree 100%. Any pointing model is made using the main camera only -- no guide camera. Then you can get "excellent guiding" with the guide camera, but that's unrelated to the main imaging

Hi Eric, According to the pointing model, the mount's polar alignment is over 10 arc-minutes off in elevation and over 20 arc-minutes off in azimuth. Since you say that the polar alignment is now

1) are you sure that you were guiding when you took the image? 2) If you did a model but the scope drifted in RA and Dec it appears that you did not activate the model 3) What is your guiding setup?

Hi Eric I can offer a few observations: On your model, you may have a few errant points (max error on east is 174 which seems high to me) I suggest you enable these two options Second,

What Mike says but when I look closely at some of the dimmer stars, they look like very tight double stars to me. Odd. Keep us posted. Jeff

Last night, it was cloudy. So, I set up APPM and connected it to my AP1600 mount. For the camera option, I selected NASA SkyView so I could see how the procedure works. It took about 25 minutes for

Thanks Karen. More great videos. I will throw another one into the suggestion list. How about a video demonstrating how to set up meridian delays with APCC and the Keypad. Maybe this would be better

Are you seeing the oval stars across the whole image ? If so, it could be that your imaging train is tilted ? If you are only seeing the oval stars in the corners you may have some field

I have a TEC 140 refractor on a 1100GTO with encoders on a permanent pier. I ran a 378 point model, and am getting excellent guiding with SGP and PHD2; mostly +/- 0.25 pixels, but getting very oval

RTFM of course...

I’ve been swapping saddles around and installing a DOVELM162 on the Mach2 today. Of course, finding the correct bolts is a bit of a challenge.

I think I got it. My router would not allow me to assign the same number as already being used by the mount... had a lease already. So I made a fixed lease for another UNUSED number, then assigned

Little Moose ok, BIG Moose, no! Rolando

Excellent videos Karen. You make the ones I do look 3rd rate :) Is it possible to do a video showing (with a mount) how to do a complete daytime alignment of the mount? It would be much

Roland Would a "little MOOSE" be okay to use (as shown below) to tighten those screws :) tony On 4/21/2022 11:54 AM, Roland Christen via groups.io wrote:

Everything has worked fine for me so far. I did the upgrade from from 10 to 11 using the Software Update in Windows.

Hi Jerry, APCC does not control the IP address settings of your mount. The best way is to log back into your router and make sure it is assigning a *static* IP address to the mount. -Ray

The CP4 has wired and wireless Internet ports and each has its own unique MAC address and each will get it's own DHCP IP assignment. I hope that helps. "Always take the high road. There's less

Hi, Am using APCC latest version and for the life of me cannot get the system to accept a fixed DHCP lease for its TCP connection. I set it on my router with the right MAC address but almost at

I bought a mini pc which came preinstalled with Win 11. I had no intention of trying it prior to that, but absolutely everything astro related works with no issues whatsoever. I can see no advantage