Email sent. Thanks.

That's not normal.

Roland - thanks again! This explanation and your suggestion to process the stars separately are very helpful. Thanks, Bob Robert J. Enouen Cell 513-504-4410

That's not a binding noise. Send me your e-mail address to chris1011@... and I can help you more easily off-line. Roland Christen

No, don't do that. You should not need to tighten those clutches with an Allen key. If you push on the scope and it doesn't move, they are tight enough. Roland

If you watch the YouTube clip I linked you can see what it sounds like. I sent the mount a home command from my computer, and it rotated by itself. I only hand tightened the clutches prior to issuing

When rotating how? Manually with the clutches loose? Sometimes if you loosen the the clutches just a little bit, you may hear a noise of the clutch pads rubbing on the mating surface. There is also a

You should be able to fully control the mount via Sky Safari. No keypad needed. Roland

One other thing I noticed is I hear a slight binding noise when rotating in one axis. I took a video to see if this is normal. Might have to turn the volume up.

With the Mach2 you never need to do that. The encoders will always keep track of where the axes are. When APCC initializes the mount it will ask the encoders for the axes positions and will display

How did you sync?

I have a few questions as a first time AP mount user. 1. If I don't have the hand controller, and don't have the mount connected to a computer. Can I set it up, and power it on. Polar align with

When I set it up for the first time, I moved the clutches so that the tick marks aligned on each axis.

I didn't get the keypad, so I used APCC to move it to home under the park tab.

How did you put it in the home position? manually with the clutches, or with keypad or with APCC goto? Roland

I wasn't sure how to recall, but I did put it in the home position, and hit sync on the 3D view, and now it shows the correct orientation. I also connected with Sky Safari and it now also shows it in

You might want to send the mount home and recal. The encoders should bring the mount to the Park3 position and the diagram should also show the mount there. Roland

Possibly somewhere during your last session one of your programs send a recal to a bogus position. If that wasn't the case, then can you remember when you initialized, what did you tell the mount

Thank you all. Much appreciated. That helps me a lot. :) Not to dismiss PEMPro, but is it really "needed" for AP mounts like my older Mac1 CP3, which I understood are/were factory calibrated for

OK, I'm stuck with something confusing in APCC. I'm in park position 3, which is pointed north towards Polaris. After connecting and initializing APCC and viewing the telescope position, I see the