If you are mobile and basically set up your mount manually each session, then it's fine to start from a known park position (example; Unpark from Park3). All you need to make sure is that you

On the 1100/1600 AE mounts, if you plan to use APCC to establish home and limits using the encoders, then after you release the clutches and rotate the axes to some other orientation you will need to

I should be receiving my MACH 2 in February 2023 and am up in the air regarding the keypad purchase. I have been reading through the posts (trying to learn as much as possible upfront). Any input

Hi Brian, Sorry that I did not make it clear. What I did is I used a camera in Win7, but my other camera can only be controlled by the Win11 virtual machine. I switched the camera in the middle of

The key is that you want to loosen the clutch if you decide to manually push to a location. You want the clutch to slip, and not transfer your force unto the gears. Your push force is amplified

Right on. It's definitely a good tool. Good luck on the m33.

Exponential Transformation? I haven't used that one. Let's check the PI documentation ... Oh dear, there isn't any, just like 80% of the program. Luckily I have Rogelio's PI reference book which

Thanks, Bill. Hi Brian -- this was a routine task for me with my previous mount (an excellent sample of 900GTO) that I controlled 100% through an ASIAIR. I've since learned about "Unpark from"

Hi Arvin’s I’m sure Roland and others will answer your question, but I want to ask about this part: >>> is it ok to loosen the clutches and use my hands to move the OTA toward the direction of the

Winter is here in Michigan and I decided I want to swap OTA's on the 1100GTO out in my observatory. I know that in the cold weather the grease seems to get thicker and fine balancing becomes "fun".

Loosening the clutch knobs and moving the mount manually is fine. That's why the clutches and knobs are there. Just don't loosen the switch to release the worm. Bill

Hi Roland, I'd appreciate some clarification on this from you when you get a chance: Before I saw this email thread, with my previous mount -- a 900GTO -- I'd loosen the clutches and initiate a GoTo,

Thanks for all 3 points. The last point you mention is quite interesting and I don't remember seeing it anywhere on the doc (IIRC). I'll try it out indoors tonight!

Almost all of my images use HDRMT and LHE. Sometimes HDRMT isn't very useful on an image but I always test it out to see what results it'll have.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 02:49 PM, Bill Long wrote: ther than BXT, this image greatly benefited from....Thank you for the rundown. These processes are becoming less of a random walk for me, and more

Yeah the 3080TI is what I use with CUDA enabled and all of the RC tools run very quickly.

As for a PC.... I have a 18 core i9 running at 4ghz with 128gb ram. For a drizzled asi6200 full frame picture it runs in about 50 minutes. When I added CUDA for my 3080 graphics card, is runs in 1.5

Other than BXT, this image greatly benefited from HDRMT, Local Histogram Equalization, and Exponential Transformation. I pulled the stars out right after BXT while still in linear format, prior to any

Did for me. My FSQ106 is now effectively newly collimated. No more cropping. Tom

Oh and one more thing, you can connect both USB and Ethernet at the same time and APCC can fail back to USB in it's own in the event of a problem with the Ethernet connection.