I saw mention on the AP website of the homing switch feature for 1100 mounts as something coming soon. Is there an eta on when it might be available with new 1100's? Thanks Richard

When I break down I go to park 3 because the case for my mount is built for 3. When I reassemble the next time I restart from park 3 after doing the polar alignment with the RAPAS. Then I tell it to

The Pdf file is now up on the website for printing…click the link at the top of the instructions. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email:

My 1100 moves fine with the clutches tight. I actually like the resistance I get. Feels good Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Hello Peter/Bill Thanks for this thread. I have had similar questions about how a good start up sequence with my Mach1. Peter I had one clarification about your post. I understand your process to be

No it just requires making different selection in the dialog in Maxim. OK After some thought my rational for directly connecting Maxim to the v2 driver is weak (especially since the system is

moving one of them to another USB port (if possible) No I had bad luck with FTDI chips on Win 7 and now on Win 10. Consequently I use a dedicated PCI serial card. Again I do not have any logs of

Rob, If you are using a USB/serial converter, does the camera happen to share the USB port via an USB hub? Also, USB ports sometimes share traffic in pairs of ports. If the camera and serial/USB use

Woody, I concur – use the same bubble & park method –though I should start using Park-4 instead of Park-1, where the axes are groundparallel in either case. Park-4 guarantees there won’t

Rob, If there are any briefly “flashed error messagescreens”, which might be missed, you might want to try recording the PCscreen just before you disconnect the camera. Jingo is a program

As I said I need to research this. Given that the error always occurs exactly at the time of the camera disconnect I still suspect software. I inserted Pipe Monitor between ACP and the V2 and turned

Connecting the guiding directly to the V2 driver is a judgement call. I don’t see the ACP Hub adding value and it reduces the overhead by a small amount. ACP does its own PinPoint and sets the FITS

HI Ray we have had the program for a long time, and it works for moving the scope around so it connects to the mount ok. Maybe I'll try reinstalling it?? Will be out there next week, and will take a

Bill, Why doyou leave the clutches tight? There's no reason. It's much easier tomove the mount with the clutches loose. At least with a Mach1, themount doesn't know the difference. No encoders

Does that require the guiding cable unlike ASCOM Direct which Bob Denny had recommended years ago? Steve

Thanks, these are good methods as well. I will try them out next time I have some clear skies. Manually pointing the mount to a star is incredibly easy to do. In fact, I can normally get to it faster

Hi, you can do it simpler. Start from the last park position. Let the scope slew to a known star. Center with the direction buttons. Do a RESYNC and you are in the business. Konstantin Konstantin v.

That's one way to do it. I find it easier to polar align with RAPAS, park my A-P mount to either Park 1 or 4 (preferred) positions, power up the mount, resume from Park 1/4 with Keypad or ASCOM

Rob, I strongly recommend with ACP, that you have MaxIm connect to the mount thru the ACP hub & use telescope guiding on MaxIm. Seems cleaner to have ACP be the sole connection to the mount. It

Daniel, PulseGuide hasn't changed for a long time, and PulseGuide doesn't use the ASCOM driver. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command