Hi there, I am very glad to share a link of an image that my friend Luiz Duczmal helped me to acquire by bringing his TakFSQ106 to my home observatory and by giving me some guidance (no pun

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ap-gto group. File : /IC4628 (Prawn Nebula) in Ha/HDR.jpg Uploaded by :

The next time I set up, I’ll play with it again. When I polar aligned yesterday, I could not find a spot where it was smooth. It was either loose or (after just a tiny turn on each screw)

Restarting APCC the same thing happened. I didn't try power cycling the mount yet. Is it just an issue with reporting the Alt, in which case it's no big deal. Or could it lead to mistakes in e.g.

On the 1100 the azimuth screws are on the side. On the 1600 they are located underneath the bottom plate and have screw driver slots. The 1100 nylon balls are not worn or damaged. If you back off the

Don't feel bad. I upgraded my ca. 2008 Mach1 to the new base last summer, and I was making course Az adjustments by physically picking up my Eagle tripod and rotating it, if needed. I then noticed the

I am trying to use SGP for image acquisition and plate solves with APPM. When I hit the "plate solve" button, SGP takes the image, but the plate solve routine never runs. APPM eventually times out

On my AP1100 (purchased used), the azimuth adjustment was pretty stiff and I didn’t know about those two hex screws. I just set the mount up yesterday in the field and I tried backing them off a

Thanks Ray - however, a question - why would that happen? The only thing that I can think about is that APCC must have started at the same time when the power would have knocked out the mount. The

Thanks, Ron. I think I'll stick with the webcam running on the observatory PC that I can access remotely from the house. I'm not concerned with security, since we live in the middle of 21 forested

really good value are the Foscam R2 units. I picked up 4 of them last winter during a sale for about 68.00 each. Normally they're a very fair 85.00. (amazon). They have IR to see in total darkness.

Your power outage probably prevented the settings file from being saved correctly so you will need to reload the settings from the last backup file that apcc created. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC

Mike, I am glad that helped. I have magnetic switches that I've STILL not installed on my mounts and roof to add another layer of safety. Enough stuff still goes wrong that I'm glad I'm not always

Thanks very much, Stuart. I bought one of these, and it does exactly what I want. I added "Open" and "Closed" signs to the roof so I can tell in the dark whether it's safe to move the scope.

Yes. It seems to be repeatable. This is using ethernet btw.

The mount latitude read from the mount, which is used for Alt/Az calculations, might have gotten corrupted during transmission back to APCC. If you shut down and restart APCC does this symptom

Hello all, We were having power issues at our remote observatory last evening. When I logged in the evening to turn everything on, just around that time, "I believe", we lost power (at least internet

Hi All I have gone through the setup documentation again and yes, the issue is the COM port. But I think the problem is with my laptop. In my Device Manager I have no Ports listed. There is actually

P.S. I notice that if I go into the Sites tab in APCC and hit "Refresh" under the Mount Location section, that seems to fix things up. What's going on??

I'm obviously interpreting something wrong here, but under the Files section (folder APCC_query, file Capture.jpg) I've put a screenshot of the status window. I'm in Park 3 in the southern