Very nice. People go after this in narrowband so often, it is refreshing to see this in natural color with the beautiful blue reflection nebula of IC 405.

Thanks everyone for for taking a look and for the comments. Seeing mythical beasts in the starless version seems to be a common occurrence. I was amazed at how much background nebulosity I was able

Why are you not able to get to the Windows PC? Remote Desktop clients are available on just about every platform on the planet. Just make sure the Windows PC is accepting RD connections. This should

Hi all, Went back to play with some older 2019 data with today's new fancy processing tools. I shot this with the Stowaway and my ML16200 camera that I no longer have. Mount was the

Alex, both versions are exquisite! Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/

Seeing that we are a couple days from the first day of winter, I thought I'd be contrarian and post a summer target. I originally shot this June/July, but I got a bit carried away processing it. I

Beautiful shot Dean!! Stuart -- Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/

Unlike other mounts out there, the AP mounts do not need to be parked for them to remember where they are pointed after power-down. The mount always knows where it is, whether you park it at the end

O my gosh, I’ll never be able to view this DSO again without seeing Fred 😊

Looks like a mythical monster. I shall call him Fred. Rolando

Everyone -- really thank you all for the inputs. Even though the suggestions so far are what I clarified as something I've already considered, I thank you for sharing your inputs on this from your

IC 405 looks like a striking cobra. Very interesting result, Dean! Karen AP

Hi All, it seems that the area around IC 417, IC 410, IC 405 is popular this month. :-) I spent a chilly night out imaging this area too last night. Here is the

Eric If Jerry does not want your ATS portable Pier I might be interested. you can PM me the particular's about the Pier Jim

The original CP1 and CP2 controllers were set up to automatically start the mount tracking when power was applied. This allowed the user to just turn the mount on, have it tracking and use it manually

Went out to check Ap v2 driver setup for the scope and all looked ok, when I powered on the mount it again started tracking and that was after the computer and everything was powered off. I will try

INDI is available and can be told a static unpark from position that the user can change in the configuration.

Then you want to use the hand box to control the mount? That will do what you want. If you want to use a PC without Windows, that leaves a Mac or Linux, and i don't know what apps those offer to

The 1100 should be initiated properly. If it was just turned off and back on and nothing else was moved, the servo will know where it is so unparking from last parked works fine. I am not clear on

>>>I'm basically trying to find a way to unpark from Park 3 without MS Windows involved. what are you wanting to use that isn't windows? I mean, *something* has to unpark the mount, right? -- Brian