I suggest that the AP1100AE be submitted to the FDA for approval as a sleep aide. I tend to wake up in the week hours when my system is imaging, and roll over and unlock the phone and RDP in to check

Very nice processing. What software are you using to process the image? Rolando

Shot using 900GTO & FSQ106 at f/5 with 2400MC Pro OSC camera, imaged using ASIAIR & an iOS app. Just shy of 3½ hours total, including an auto-meridian flip. Polar Alignment was less than a 1-arcmin,

If the guiding is normal then the mount is doing what the guide program is telling it to do. The mount cannot know what the imaging scope is doing. The imaging scope may be flexing when pointing

That's really neat! Roland

Hi Bruce, Are you using the Smart Meridian Flip plug-in in NINA? If not, you should. I've seen the same issue in NINA when not using the plug-in as NINA will initiate the flip when it is time

Thanks Luca for this interesting read! Here is my H-alpha layer (not using a 6-meter telescope though):

I use an SBIG STL-11000 full frame camera with the SBIG Remote Guide Head camera. The actual 'guidescope' is a 100mm focal length optic that SBIG once sold, which name I can't remember at the moment.

What guide scope did you use?

Guiding the short focal length TAK with the very long focal length C11 can still be effected by flexure, it just may not show up. That might be OK, but, as you probably know finding a guide star with

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 08:49 AM, Ray Gralak wrote: Would you consider making APCC really honor the "None" setting?That's already been done (and more :-) but we are still testing and documenting the

Then that argues going back to me using the OAG on the C11, which always worked well, even better than the guide scope on the Stellarvue. Actually, the guide scope on the Tak is a backup in case the

Ok, I see people stacking all kinds of optical tubes on top of each other. This is just asking for flexure. I had an AP155 with a guidescope on top mounted in rings and kept having elongated stars.

No- it is being used as an imaging scope. I can guide using the guide scope attached to it or the OAG on the C11. It is no heavier than the Stellarvue. It could be some new flexure introduced by

I doubt a mount problem. More than likely differential flexure. Are you using the Tak as a guidescope? Tak instruments are heavy and even if hardware attachment devices are seemingly beefy and secure,

I would not have thought to check the CAA. Thank you

I'd suggest looking at the camera angle rotator CAA. My CAA on my FSQ106 was slipping even though I thought I had really tightened it down. I replaced the entire focuser mechanism with a NiteCrawler

I recently replaced my Stellarvue with a Takahashi FSQ-85 EDX on top of my C11" EdgeHD. The mount is an AP1100. I've have used this setup the past 2 years with NINA with issues until I replaced the

Hi Linwood, That's already been done (and more :-) but we are still testing and documenting the changes in the next APCC point release. Until then, if you start APCC first, it will not create

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