When 10-Micron was first offered a few years ago they initially used the AP driver. Since then they have written their own. Rolando

CP4 software updates will always be free. The older controller (CP1 to 3) required a new chip. That is costly to us and we never made profit from it. Now with the CP4 we can update and add software

YES, that is correct. Rolando

You can make the RA drift either slower or faster by raising or lowering the altitude axis. There is a point where the drift rate at the zenith is exactly zero. The RA will of course drift slightly as

Hi Roland, Thank you for making these points. I am coming from an alt-az world and for years used Polaris as one of my two alignment stars for the Argo Navis on my 24" Starstructure. A clear case of

The RA will drift if the altitude axis is too high or too low. That is basic polar alignment. The gears and the encoders are dead nuts accurate and are not the cause of any RA drift. Do your RA drift

Try not to sync on Polaris at start. You could be off by 3 to 4 hours in RA and still have Polaris in the eyepiece field. That is a recipe for a poor starting point. Start your mount well away from

Throw a bit of grease onto the spur gears and see if that helps. Lubriplate works nicely. Rolando

Anything under 1 second is normal for the spur gear. Guiding and calibration should always be done at 1x. The slower rates are for manual guiding only. Rolando

Any Ideas? I know that especially Ray was busy with "hard stuff" from Italy! ;-) Regards Thomas Am 28.08.2017 um 16:30 schrieb 'T. Hellwing' t.hellwing@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...>:

Lets not go there. Dave

I post from my iPhone and it cuts off my post. Trolls and Golum came from the same place. deep in middle earth.

No, no troll. just someone trying to figure out their mount and compared to their long use mount, have some questions, concerns and is comparing the 2. If I recall, I can bring up the posts, from

GC I have an A-P 1100. I originally had the CP3,. I upgraded to CP4. The following observations apply to both. I can do the functions you list using the free A-P ASCOM driver and the free

GC, to best help you and answer your questions, what model AP mount do you have, which model servo controller and have you tried the free trial of APCC? -Christopher Erickson Observatory

No i am not a troll, i am an astroimager who owns both mounts; My opinion is for a better use of AP mount; I'm interested to unpark, to park, to have and keep a good pole alignment with a good sky

Hi Ray, I want to set 3 hours in right ascension past the Meridian. Regards Thomas

Hi Thomas, 180 minutes is 3 hours in right ascension. Is that what you meant to set? Or did you want to set it to 180 arc-minutes? (12 minutes RA past the meridian). Best regards, -Ray

Hello to all, I tried to set the RA limits at the Homing/Limits Tab but APCC pro ignore these setting (180 min.) and my Telescope almost crashed into the pier. Is there something I have to amend as