Hi Craig, I think Howard has contacted via private email about what you should try, but I wanted to say that APPM just collects the data points. The modeling, including pointing corrections and

To correct/augment an earlier message of mine which has not yet appeared: A useful description (dated April '17) from AP, describing the control capabilities supported in Luminos and

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Hello I too am interested in the broad topic of iOS control from the perspective of standalone portable imaging. I've read that the Luminos app can command AP mounts to traverse to any of their park

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Hi Craig, I don't want this to get confused with a bunch of answers from northern hemisphere users, so I'd like to take this off-group, if you don't mind. I have something I'd like for you to try,

Setup: AP1600GTOAE F/W: VCP4-P01-10 APCC Pro version: V1.6.0.3 V2 ASCOM driver: V5.10.02 Maxim DL version: 6.17 plate scale: 0.57"/pixel Location: southern hemisphere (New Zealand) In the past I have

Chris, Email me directly and I can give you the necessary command sequence. SkySafari does not offer tracking speed changes (yet). Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics,

Sky Safari 5 does not let users change the tracking rate fromsidereal. Sky Safari 6 might add that feature... if the developers arepestered (or monetarily incentivized) enough to do it.

Hi Jerry, One quick comment on your data: Your imaging pixel scale (6.3 arc-s pixel) is almost as big as the measured pk-pk PE (5.3 arc-seconds). Or in other words, the PE was measured over less

This is not appropriate to post on this user group since nobody can give you any real information about your results. If you had sent it to Howard, George, myself or Ray Graylak, you would have had a

Hi Dale, The driver should automatically initialize from RA=0 and Dec=90, but it doesn't look like that happened. Can you zip the driver logs using the driver's Log Zipper utility and post the logs

On Cloudy: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/628491-initial-alignment-of-rapas/#entry8753318 "Does the AP polar app correct for refraction?" No, of course not. The App simply tells the user where

Hi Darrell, That's good news! Now, if only yahoogroups would work as expected! Best regards, -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

>By the way, you never have to power cycle to sync to a known star. Leave the mount running, >loosen clutches, push the scope manually, OR even simpler move the scope via the buttons at >1200x to

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Yes, it should be fine UNLESS you aim the scope at Deneb and sync on Vega. Then you are lost again... and don't say it can't happen because I have done it myself at least once. By the way, you never

This is a great discussion for us newbies and the method and reasons behind the methods are a great area of interest to at least this forum member. There is always a road less traveled. Thanks!

>However you can always do a fresh setup start whereby you insert the correct position manually (restart from Park1,2,3 or 4) if you wish. The servo then throws away all previous position information