The QHY16200 camera is very nice, provided you use ASCOM with it. The x2 SkyX driver crashes, and INDI driver also just hangs up and never responds after a single frame. On ASCOM though, you cannot

Nice sharp image Bill. Love the detail. That camera/scope combo is working well for you. Looking forward to seeing the completed project. Don Anderson --------------------------------------------

Finally had a chance to get some more data. https://astrob.in/full/358717/F/ At close to 6 hours now. The AP1100 has performed remarkably well. Last two sessions I was around 0.3-0.4" RMS guiding,

Thanks guys. Your guiding seems better than mine but early days yet😊

I use a similar procedure with my Mach1. Two nights ago seeing was pretty good with RMS at 0.31” and dips into the high 0.2x” range. I experimented a bit with PEM on and off, with a difference

Paul, try a blind/sync in SGP first. (well polar align first) then move off the pole a ways and do a blind/sync. This is usually much faster than the local plate solve search. This will sync the

Sure. I was just after a way to quickly fix it without having to reset everything.

Thanks Ray.

In my experience, that error usually indicates that something has gone awry.

Hi Paul, In APCC's Advanced Settings dialog there is an option called "Prevent Errant RECALs". Disabling that option will eliminate the 5 degree limit. However, I recommend that you enable the option

I guess one side question out of my long-winded one that I'd be keen to see if there's an answer to is is there a way to force the driver (or APCC or whatever) to accept an RCAL it thinks is too far

Hi Rolando, I'll try what you say and make sure that I know what PEMPro program does inside and out before I redo the measurement. I really don't like screwing up. The only advantage is that I only

Thanks for responding. The support e-mail will not be answered on the weekends since the office is closed. Here's the deal: your measurements are probably accurate if you followed the PEMPro Wizard

Hi Rolando, Thanks for the reply! I did send in an enquiry to your support email :) I'll definitely take your advice and start cleaning up the cabling etc and then try again withe PE

I have never said that there's a bug in the driver. I am saying that I have not seen the issue with PHD2 and SGP related to dithering. It could be operator error from OP. Peter ---In ap-gto@...,

I have spent hours trying unsuccessfully to reproduce the problem by removing PHD2 from the picture so I am almost certain this issue is not a bug in the driver. I don't have or use the latest

Hi Ray, OK. Like I said before, I have not experienced strange issues related to dithering with PHD2 and SGP. My only complaint is that sometimes dithering can take longer than I would expect but that

Howdy All, I recently became aware of a post on Cloudy Nights from one of our customers who received his Mach1 and loaded up his gear on it and proceeded to measure the periodic error using PEMPro.

The Absolute Encoders consist of high resolution Renishaw rings and readheads. They are the most accurate available and can position the axes to a tiny fraction of an arc second. In RA they will

The pre-defined park positions are only accurate if the mount is actually polar aligned. otherwise they will be off by the amount of polar misalignment. park positions can be used in the daytime to