Seems to be coming through Anthony Don Anderson

Yes, indeed that is correct. And to expand further, the mount always knows exactly where it is, regardless if you sync or not. It just doesn't know where the telescope is exactly pointed at any given

Do I understand correctly: if I slew to an object using The SkyX, then center it using the hand controller, if I press "sync" in The SkyX the mount will now know exactly where it is? I read earlier

TheSky sends the exact co-ordinates to the mount. The mount memory retains those co-ordinates. Now when you move the mount to center the object and press Rcal, the mount will again place those exact

Roland, I use The SkyX Serious. In the Find tab, I use "Search for" and then I hit the Slew button to go to the object. The object is usually in the outer 1/3 of the Finderscope Field. The

Thanks very much for the *very clear* explanation of Sync vs. Recal. Coming from a Celestron (I think most Chinese mounts, Skywatcher, iOptron, Meade would create similar mindsets) background, I

Perhaps I did not fully understand your question, so let me ask you how you got to the object that you want to recal on. How did you point the scope to that star assuming you do not have a

There will be no more upgrades to the CP3. The reason we went to the CP4 is so we can upgrade the software via the internet. The CP3 always needed a new chip, and that gets expensive, both for us and

Thank you very much Roland. The 1100 mount is exceptional.

If you go to an object via a GoTo command, the object co-ordinates are sent to the mount and they are in the mount memory. There is no reason to enter them manually again because they are already

Hi Rolando, If you are planning on removing either SYNC or RCAL in the future, would that require firmware update in GTOCPX box? I have still have CP3 box with AP1100 and do you plan to continue to

Thanks Rolando, I'll add my appreciation for your last 2 posts as I too have been confused by Sync and Recal when slewing with the HC. Sometimes I mix using CdC planatarium with Meridain delay set in

Is it correct to say that if there is no keypad, the user must manual enter the RA and Dec in APCC before hitting the RCAL button? In my case, I use the SkyX, so I would get the coordinates from

Recal is simply a tweaking of the star position from where the mount sent the scope in a slew to the slightly different position where it is centered in your eyepiece or image. You have entered a

Because all of our mounts have clutches, there are two ways to get to a star or other deep sky objects. 1) The first way is to simply send the mount electronically to the object via a slew command.

Thanks very much, good to know that the SYNC happens automatically on unpark (I imagine the position is irrelevant as long as it's defined). I surely hope this is a much different mount than the

Same here guys, I've just missed the images, bet some were pretty good, too. Steve E

Yes, very helpful, thanks! I guess the step about using the arrow keys to center was left out of the documentation as "too obvious..." It was amazing to me that without any syncing (just putting

If you unpark A-P mount from a known park position (i.e. Park 4), it's an AUTOMATIC SYNC because CP4 knows Park 4 position assuming you correctly parked the mount. Next step is slew to a known star,

Yes, you use the arrow keys in either the ASCOM driver or APCC to center the star. Then, when you do a recalibrate, it will know that the mount is currently pointed at the object that you went to in