Ken, You want to make sure that the driver initializes the mount so if you have the AP keypad connected, disconnect it. You also want to be sure that you have your site selected and in the

Hi Ray, Thanks so much for this suggestion. I did reboot my PC, powered down the mount, re-powered both. Then, I opened AP V2 Driver, selected my home site Lat & Long, then hit the "OK"

Hey Dean, When I try to "Get latitude/longitude from Mount" IN ascom v2 Driver when the mount is disconnected, I get the error "Failed to get Latitude/Longitude from mount on COM5."

You need to power cycle the mount. The Latitude/longitude can be set only once after each power cycle. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

Try changing it when NOT connected to the mount.

Hello Everyone, I am new to this user group. I am having a mysterious problem with my Mach1, CP3 configuration with ASCOM V2 Telescope driver v5.20.09. My problem is that in the ASCOM Driver Setup,

Yuri at TEC states that the TEC 140 ED has a temperature coefficient of 33 microns/deg C. What is that when the QuadTCC focal reducer/field flattener is added? Thanks in advance for the

Don, fo you mean track the focuser position digitally?

Does the AP Mach 1 track its position digitally? Asking because this is a requirement to use autofocus in AstroArt7.

ok- well, I've had the mount for almost 2 years and it was very good when breaking it down and setting back up but never as accurate as you describe even after doing drift alignment and using the

Effectively speaking, AP mounts don't lose their sky alignmentwhen the power is removed, unlike Meade, Celestron, iOptron,etc. mounts. When being powered up, AP mounts know preciselywhere they were

Permanent - thanks both I'll download and try it. I thought I had things worked out then I made some adjustments on the scope and now alignment is off again. Guess I can try to check ortho issue if

Permanent pier or temporary setups? If it is permanent then you only need to align once after the first setup. Ortho error might be making your life more complicated. Evaluate it and fix it. Besides

All sky plate solve?

I recently put my C11' on a mount about 11 or so feet above the ground. So, using a finder scope to center an object after slewing from parked position 4 is no longer practical. If the object is not

Greg and Terry, I now have a picture of the system requirement; ASCOM and POTH. I will check with the local dome vendors to see if they support ASCOM. Thank you very much and best regards, Yasushi

As long as your dome has an ASCOM driver, why not use POTH. It can slave your dome to your mount, control your focuser etc. Both my TI and ScopeDome domes will do this. And the price ASCOM is

I'm don't have a dome but doesn't TheSkyX do this? (and probably a lot of other software products do it) Greg

Hi, I am looking for a device (hardware and software) that connects AP GTOCP4 Control Box and a dome so that the dome rotates as the mount follows the objective. I assume the device reads RA and DEC

For star parties I think you can get away with the Mach1. For normal imaging I would go with the larger mount. Rolando