I find a digital trigger pull gauge works well. I didn't buy it for this purpose, but it lends itself well to the task.

Marc, Both methods are plenty accurate enough. I prefer the digital fish-scale method because I find it faster and easier to do. But I’ve also used an inline PowerWerx volt/amp meter and it

I’m curious how a fish scale is more reliable and/or accurate than an ammeter. Both seem rough at best. Perhaps Roland has a very accurate scale and a procedure that is repeatable? marc

Balance is often misunderstood, and its sneaky interactions with worm-gear backlash can drive a person nuts (... short trip for some of us!) Here's some guidance: ENCODER MOUNTS (Mach2GTO and 1100 &

Backlash or play in the RA axis has no effect on guiding. This is especially so for encoder mounts. Sometimes when user adjusts the backstop, they may either do it too tightly or on occasion do it

If the PEC correction in the mount is up to date and of good quality, and the model is nice and dense, I dont see why you could not get longer subs unguided. If you are using a refractor or other

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Hi Matt Do you have some examples of your guiding you can share? like a phd guidelog Aside from your question on RA axis, using the wrong settings for guiding on an encoder mount can produce poor

I started this earlier and then got side-tracked. Imagine that! In a sense, it's all a happy-moot-point with an Astro-Physics mount. If you are polar-aligned, you can always simply: Resume from

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:02 AM, Roland Christen wrote: What results are you getting?Hi Roland. Results are OK. I was just curious if there was a more accurate backfocus range for the TEC 140ED Gen

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:32 AM, Brian Valente wrote: >>>If you use high precision holes in a concrete base to set up a portable setup with reasonably high precision repeatability from night to night

Hi AP team and users, My RA guiding has been pretty poor recently on my AP 1100 AE. I inspected the axis and discovered that it has some “play” when the axis is parked. I tried adjusting the

Hi Nick I'll offer my opinion: >>>Is it possible to use enough points in the dec arc model to get the Mach1 (with PEC) to do 15 minute unguided exposures? If so, how many points? I think this depends

Some questions about the Mach1GTO and Dec Arc Tracking: Is it possible to use enough points in the dec arc model to get the Mach1 (with PEC) to do 15 minute unguided exposures? If so, how many

When you do 3 things at once, you really don't know what caused what. Rolando

You call during the day when he's here and talk about your connection issue. Rolando

>>>So if this was balance, I thought the mount should be perfectly balanced. Is this not the case? i suspect your success (congrats btw) is not related to changes in your balance you could of course

An update: Today I loaded the latest firmware into the CP4 and downloaded the latest release of APCC. I also very slightly altered the balance of the scope, making the mount slightly east heavy (not

Roland, Thank you. How do I do that? Preston

Hi Dale, Thanks for noticing. FWIW, APCC can "find" CP4s and CP5's. See below. If UDP or TCP is checked, you can click the magnifying glass, which will perform auto-discovery. A List of reachable