In the early 1960s I remember being frustrated as kid trying to find the constellations in the South Florida skies… TOO MANY STARS! The Milky Way was an amazing “blanket of light”. Here in St

I live on the coast half way between LA and the Bay area. The sky is fairly dark particularly out toward the ocean. We are blessed with a perpetual water shortage that has stopped all new development.

When we moved to New Mexico five years ago the retirement community we built in was surrounded by high desert…we got some sky glow from Albuquerque 20 miles to the northeast but with the dry air and

I feel fortunate that I am able to pack all of my gear out to a Bortle 3 site that is only a 2 hour [70 mile] drive from my home. A trip out to a Bortle 2 site takes a little longer - about 4 hours.

Very sad indeed. My neighborhood in Montana is a standard type of suburban neighborhood. It is located in Big Sky. There are 65 lots all within view of each other and the sizes range from 0.4 to

Light and sound pollution has accelerated this century. At some point most people will not know that there are stars in the sky Rolando

Hi Ernie >>>Is there a way that I can get APCC and Stellarium to communicate? Assuming you want to use Stellarium to point your telescope, just use Stellarium's ASCOM driver for telescope connection.

I've had a Mach2 for a couple years now, but I was a Mac user and connected directly via SkySafari or using my hand controller. I'm now using a PC, so I can run APCC pro. Is there a way that I can get

Thanks Ray and Alex. So I tried updating everything but still no luck. Perhaps the next thing I could try would be to reinstall a later Windows version. Does this seem a reasonable

Rory, Glad your problem has been solved. I'll stick with the virtual ports for now since they're working, but great to have an alternative. If you were asking about my images, most of them are at:

Looks great! Rolando

Yes, I had deleted all my virtual ports, restarted the computer, updated APCC, numerous times and nothing worked (actually, it would occasionally work and then quit working on a computer restart, even

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 09:49 AM, Howard Hedlund wrote: ReST API to connect the driver to APCC Working great so far! Thanks for the advice! Rory PS. Do you post your images anywhere?

This is the project that I envisioned a couple of years ago, a “heart transplant” for my venerable Meade 16” LX200 SCT using a new A-P 1600GTO mount. A trifling mod to the tripod deck was all

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:30 AM, Kevin Cook wrote: On the Guide Settings, after a lot of experimentation on my part and helpful suggestions from fellow TAAA astrophotographers (they are drawn to the

Hi Dan - I used to use the ASCOM mount driver when I was running SharpCap and PhD2 guiding, but now with the ASIAIR PRO, I just select the AstroPhysics GTO CP3/4 option from the Mount Settings menu.

"Ditch & switch" is probably the best solution. However, you might want to go to Device Manager in Windows (with APCC closed) and see if your virtual ports were properly terminated the last time APCC

Hi Kevin, thanks for the tip! It solved the first problem (polar align works perfectly now), but I still have problems to calibrate autoguiding. When reversing directions the motion is far too large.

Thanks for the clarification, Marj. And I can’t tell you how pleased and impressed I am with the construction and physical presence of the mount. It looks as though my idea of mating it to my old

Hello Howard, Congratulations on your new 1600GTO! There is no Y-cable for this mount. You are correct in your thinking about the motor and encoder cables that connect from the backplate to the