Hi Jerry, > I realize I have that checked, BUT, I also come to realize that the ACP model script shuts the mount down first, > but Maxim and the camera keep running for a while to allow the chip

Simply Beautiful Roland!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Pete

Ray, I realize I have that checked, BUT, I also come to realize that the ACP model script shuts the mount down first, but Maxim and the camera keep running for a while to allow the chip to warm

Alright, here's 30 minutes of me talking about it: https://youtu.be/TOUqKZXJyUs

Foam plumbing insulation tubes taped around the turnbuckles and rods may cut the vibrations. I second the recommendation of the wood platform. My observatory is on 4 concrete posts that go down

Thanks, Roland. I had been looking at the Eagle portable pier, but the listing doesn’t mention the 1600GTO. Are the two adaptable to each other and play nicely together? By the way, my 25-year-old

Nice one Roland. It sure helps to get a little further south on the globe for this object. :-) -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

Hi Howard, The document looks good to me. I do have a question though... I am presently running APCC v1.8.8.17. I was reading your description of the "Dec Arc Tracking on a mini Dec-Arc-Model".

OK, rent a trencher and dig a trench to the observatory location, and lay direct-burial Ethernet cable. Bring it out of the ground with a short length of PVC conduit and a service (weather) head.

Roland, I never do this galaxy because it is so hard to make look good. This is one of the best I have ever seen. You nailed the colors better than I have seen. Robert

Roland, that IS APOD quality. Amazing. I'm not sure I've ever seen this object in such detail. Wow. joel

Hello Astronuts, This is the first of several images that I was able to glean from my dark Hawaii site couple of weeks ago. This is one night's work during testing of the 1600 encoder mount modeling.

If your C14 is not an EdgeHD without mirror locks, then it may be mirror flop flexure. Peter

Roland was correct (no surprise there)! After regreasing my AP1200 mount It lost the ability to know where it was pointing. The answer was to match the computer location and time with the keypad even

No rush at this point.  It'll probably be a few days before I get the rig up and running again :) -Wade

Thanks for the suggestions to build the pier now. The issue is that I have the temporary site near the house.  The observatory is going to be further out in the property.  Right now, I can control

I don't have anything fresher than that video at the moment, but I have been working on this Advanced Sequencer plugin quite a bit lately. It has turned into a project between Ray and myself, with

I vote for building the pier now, then build the observatory around it next year. I've built two observatories, and the concrete pier was the first thing constructed. Here's our latest observatory

If you know where you'll site your observatory, put your pier in now and then build the obsy around it when the time comes for that. Once you nail down what you want for pier height, it's never too

That's kind of my assumption. I'm actually thinking now about what to do for wind mitigation. I would either put up a very sturdy fence around the mount or set up a concrete pier set