Understood, thanks Roland

Holy frijoles, Batman, there are some nice images over the last few days from you guys! Thanks for sharing, Steve! Karen AP

Dang, Linwood. That’s really striking. Great work. Karen AP

Thanks Karen. That Epsilon is a photon vacuum.

Wow, that’s gorgeous, Bill. Karen AP

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 08:39 AM, Karen Christen wrote: Pretty cool little rollaway observatory shed thingy, Peter. Don’t think I’ve seen one like that before. KarenYes, a very innovative

I would not use this on astronomical equipment. Rolando

All boards in the AP mounts are already conformal coated. Do not add more willy nilly since you can mess up the connector pins! Roland

Pretty cool little rollaway observatory shed thingy, Peter. Don’t think I’ve seen one like that before. Karen AP

That’s a really nice result, David! Karen AP

Yan, You will need to contact the ASCOM group for help with Alpaca usage. The AP V2 ASCOM driver knows nothing about Alpaca. However, earlier firmware versions of the control box may limit the

I noticed on the data sheet that this grease is not recommended "As a lubricant in metal bearings" I emailed Daleen instead to place an order for the AP special grease. Also, when I took DEC apart

Hello everyone, here is the first image with my AP900 that I got few weeks ago. There's absolutely nothing to say about the mount, it just works. Flawlessly from the first to the last sub. The scope

Hi Ray Thank you when i move the mount with AP V2 ASCOM in 600, i can see that the move is fast. (its ok)but with Alpaca in 2.5 the displacement corresponds to a speed 12 in ASCOM I can't find the

Did some model testing and grabbed 3.5 hours of Sadr in HA. Epsilon E160ED scope, AP Mach 2 mount, unguided subs of 5 mins. Camera is the QHY600 full frame CMOS. Filter was the Astronomik MaxFR 6nm.

Agreed. Placing the burden of solving the issue in terms of work, on users, is a bad thing.

Honestly, there is an easy solution for this. Most equipment listings are just variations of the same thing. He should have been able to mass migrate all the obvious stuff, and leave users to sort

Conformal coatings are good for boards that aren't already contaminated. Not so good for already-contaminated boards. There are ways to clean contaminated boards to stabilize them, dry them and then

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 04:12 PM, Bill Long wrote: It wants someone to migrate every piece a gear they have ever used. So for those that have some really old images (even those moved to staging) it is

This is the grease I have on hand: https://www.duniway.com/images/_pg/datasheet-DC-150.pdf It is Dow Corning High Vacuum Grease. Silicone Base and rated for -40C to 204C degrees. I remember reading