One of our guys here mounted a small winch in the back of his van, which can swing inward to pick up the mount and scope and then swing out to lower it onto the pier. A real back saver. Rolando

... unfortunately a temporary cessation of the big France trips (at least I hope it's temporary) - lumbar spinal stenosis with pinched Sciatic nerve, apparently caused by continual mounting and

Hey George, I try to call you in 2 hours when it fits for you?! You are GMT-5 right? KR Thomas Am 06.06.2017 um 19:01 schrieb George george@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...>:

Thomas, Give me a call… Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email: george@...

Hi Rolando, who is George? KR Thomas Am 06.06.2017 um 18:38 schrieb chris1011@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...>:

Give George a call. He'll help you figure it out. Rolando

Well, that's funny indeed. Glad you are still imaging after all these years, and enjoying your equipment. I do the best i can from my rather poor location here in the middle of industrial/commercial

Dear Suresh, thank you for the information. I bought it 3 weeks ago. Strange is the fact that I can connect the KP to the COM port. But loading the Data in direction from Notebook to KP isn't working.

I loved that song when I was little. Just heard it again recently at a performance of Pajama Game.

Hi Thomas , How old is your keypad ? The weakest link in the key pad is the coiled cable . First try several times , next open the keypad and try cleaning the pins which the cable

Hola Rolando, The name always makes me think of Hernando's Hideaway - perhaps that could be an AP theme tune? :) Anyway, keep em coming! I mean those precision negative images with amazing faint

Very interesting. Rolando

Dear all , I tried to update my keypad with current version 4.17 to version 4.19.3 but it failed. OS is Win10 At first I proceed the three-finger-salute to erase the eeprom. I used the original

Rolando FYI The Gunnison Valley Observatory (Colorado) has a 30" uncorrected D-K. See history at http://www.gunnisonvalleyobservatory.com/about/default.html Bryan

As Roland said this is an instrument belonging to the Copenhague University, dedicated to photometry and has a twin instrument belonging to ESO. It was constructed in

That's a fantastic project! I just departed from the Santiago airport about 16 hours ago! -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

You can't let those skies go to waste ;^)) Rolando

Rolando Thanks for working with the rest of the group down there to restore and enhance a classic. Bryan

Excellent! Way to recycle! Dave

Hi All, Some news from our amateurs down in Chile. The 20" Danish telescope at La Silla in the Chilean Andes was recently decommissioned and was to be mothballed or removed. Some of the Chilean