Yes you should guide at 1.0 not 0.5.

Hi, I got new Mach1GTO last week and planning first light with it in this weekend. Since I have used Celestron AVX and almost default setting of PHD2 (guiding assistant helped, of course), I wonder

Wow, I think PHD has minmo set to .2 for each axis by default. I may have to try the 5 second calibration and these min/mo settings. Does MaximDL have aggressiveness settings?

OOps! That should read 5 x 20 minute exposures. Rolando

I use MaximDL, however PHD would give the same results. There's nothing magic going on. I did a 5 second calibration run, set Min/Max move to 0.5 sec and 0.01 seconds. The mount is properly polar

Impressive guiding and impressive image results! Now I am curious how you configure your guider (and how to translate that to PHD guiding)...

Hi All, Had a calm night of good seeing, did some testing on the 1600 mount with 17" F8 astrograph. Guider scale is 1 arc sec per pixel. Guide subs were 20 sec. each. Note RMS guide values(peak values

George, I have .Net Framework 4.7 installed. Do I uninstall and download an earlier version or do I uninstall and reinstall? Barbara

Hi Barbara, One thought--make sure your .Net framework 3.5 is active. A recent update on my Win10 laptop installed 4.6 (I believe)--and I had to reactivate the 3.5 service under "Windows Features"

Barbara, You need to install the .NET 4.5.2 Framework or later: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42643 Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics,

I just got a new (refurbished) observatory computer with Windows 7 Pro. I got everything installed without errors. Everything ran ok 2 weeks ago. But when I tried opening APCC today, I got the

I do have a remote setup which is setup to only run with the mount EAST of the pier. The mount is physically on the right side, but for some reason the software suddently decided that it was on the

A detailed list of equipment would be good. There are many small but critical pieces. Maybe you could forward me the invoices so I can check the inventory. Who did you purchase from? steve hoffman

Hi Steve, That's sound very exciting. The fact is Andre doesn't have any experience with the equipment, so he will need help to set up the mount and the scope before taking pictures. If you think you

I went from using a Kendrick Astro 33Ah battery pack with its AGM deep cycle battery. I wanted a lighter and more flexible solution, so I replaced that with a Bioenno 12V/40Ah LiFePO4 battery Kendrick

Well I have an AP-900 permanently mounted in my yard. Andre could set up the Mach1 seperately and we could image with my equipment and the Mach1. Give me your email address and I will send you some

Thanks Rolando, Makes sense – since it was told to “disconnect itself”,Sky Charts has “no further reason” to poll the mount for tracking status – SkyCharts job had come to an end.

Thanks Ray, I suspected it is an oversight in CdC/Sky Charts, butwondered if it was something I had failed to do, in a specific sequence on SkyCharts mount disconnect command. I suppose that

Nothing is ever sent out from the mount or ASCOM or APCC without being asked. NOTHING. Rolando

Hi Steve, Nice! And do you how to set everything, Mach1 and Stellarvue 80? Someone in NYC it would be best, but there's a possibility to Andre drive until where you are. :) best camila