I had a situation where i added a heavy reducer and camera making the scope quite back-heavy. I couldn't slide the tube any further in the rings, so needed to loosen the dovetail to slide the bar

Thanks Don, to the best of my measurements, it's about 0.96 microns/step. I'm going to round it out to 1. It's used by my autofocus software in it's calculations

Wayne I have the Focus BossII system as well and run two focusers from the hub. Works very well. The step size is a function of the gear ratio of the focuser you are running. The best way to figure

Just installed an Optec Focus Boss II with HSM motor on my 130GTX - what a sweet combination. Smooth as silk and handles my cameras with ease. Just a minor question for those who may have the same

there are indi drivers in the wild and in the works using the lx200 command set already. It's being developed for different mounts but the lx200 protocol is pretty universal. Should work with ap

Hello all, I am curious if there are plans to allow for non-Windows systems to take advantage of the commands that the CP4 guide and Hand Control mention are not released at this time. While I am a

Greg JUST as I sent this, it dawned on me. You have a camera mounted!! Sorry bryan

Greg Maybe I am missing something. Use a bright star, for example, that is easy to ID even naked eye. Sirius, Procyon, Capella are good right now. Bryan ---In ap-gto@..., <fyrframe@...> wrote

Greg, Since Bryan wrote that the spreading green laserbeam would be visible in the FOV of the OTA, why not try adjusting thelaser pointing while taking quick focus snapshots through the main

Thanks Bryan. That would require me to identify which star I am looking at, through the scope, using my naked eye. Unlike a finder which adds a little magnification to assist in that

I did my my first run at trying to collect data on my mount the other night and ran into a problem. I would start the cycle of collecting the data and it would just stop taking samples sometimes in

On Mar 8, 2017, at 11:05 PM, leporej@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...> wrote: After building a pointing model and enabling it should you do a sync after a plate solve while using focus max or

After building a pointing model and enabling it should you do a sync after a plate solve while using focus max or any other program after a plate solve? Thanks Joe

I'm starting to use SGPro and clicked on "Send Limit to SGPro" in the "Meridian" tab of APCC. The help message that pops up says "Counterweight Up Slews within West Limits must be enabled", so I

I am still running the last official release of APCC Pro v1.0.3.4 ("never touch a running system"), but I do consider an update to the latest public beta. Before updating, I would like to know if the

Most common problem of a used mount being shipped to a new owner is damage during shipping due to less than ideal packing. What happens is the motor boxes get pushed hard into the worm wheel which

I would check the Y cable first , next check if Dec axis I jammed Suresh

Remesh the DEC axis. You can find a instruction on the website. Grüsse Konstantin v. Poschinger Hammerichstr. 5 22605 Hamburg 040/8805747 0171/1983476 Am 08.03.2017 um 03:26 schrieb radial195@...

First thing I would check (after pinging the previous owner aboutwhat he/she might know about it) would be the motor Y-cable. Allconnections tight? Does one end looked pulled from the connector a

Ideally it would be best to get both axes balanced, however the best tracking will be with the RA axis balanced. The motors can handle quite a bit of unbalance, but the RA wants to have smooth