Hello everyone, Okay, it’s time for me to wade into this topic. First, let me say that I have been a member of both AP user groups for at least ten years, and yet have not posted in nearly that

Hello Dominique, Let me rephrase: The APCC version you have now will continue to operate, forever, for free. If your license is more than one year old and you choose to renew now, you will

Hi, Seeking to know if the option of the 4 new functionalities is worth it for me and more particularly this one, the question that you ask Dean interests me too. I have a little trouble understanding

Yes, it appears that that is all it takes. Couldn't be any simpler. I was initially wondering if there was another set or type of APPM data that needed to be acquired to implement the feature. --

Dean just to answer your question here: >>>How do I implement this new feature other than setting the check box? After making your model you just check the box. you don't need to do anything else --

Thanks Ray. So, there needs to be a APPM data acquisition and then APCC applies the data as is usual for a tracking rate model. The Dec-Arc Tracking is another layer of precision on top of the APCC

Hi Ray, Thank you very much by removing the protection I was able to install. I had never had this type of problem with this dll., Probably an evolution of the protection on my antivirus. I put the

Dale, Thanks for all your work and wisdom! Steve

Hi Karen, You say things about your 2 answers which are slightly contradictory. On the one hand, that for APCC it does not work like a Saas. "We have not charged any fees whatsoever, in the last 5

Yep, that did it. BTW, is there a place (other than through this forum) to report issues re APPC/APPM (or even enhancement requests) that we could come across or is this the correct place to ask

Hi Dean, In a nutshell: The all-sky models produce a tracking rate derived from the best-fit pointing terms across all its data points. However, it is possible that the equipment has some

Heavy, dark sulphur cutting oils are cheap. Break-Free CLP is not. "My advice is always free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii

Looks good Mike! You have the latest version, so it looks like there might not be a need to uninstall the old APCC version after all. -Ray

Hi Chris That sounds really interesting about CLP being a good cutting oil. I will definitely have to try it. I learned from the experienced machinists who ran the Bridgeport milling machines to use

You found a subtle bug. :-) Try renaming the filename's extension from ".fits" to ".fit". APPM expects the filename to have a three character extension, "fit", so it incorrectly constructed the name

Hi Dominique, The installation of ApUtils.DLL has not changed in a long time, so that implies something local to your computer is causing it. In particular, the error message indicates there was an

Using the command line thrown to ASTAP by APPM "Image link test button" and writing log to file shows that(see below), in my case at least, image is solved correctly, even if reported otherwise by

Hello Dominique and Astro-Nuts, It seems many people are very confused about the $100 subscription. You areNOT REQUIRED to pay the subscription fee every year! Subscription renewal isOPTIONAL.

My experience is that just about any lubricant will help with galling/cold welding to some degree. However also in my experience, lubricants containing ground Teflon work the best. My speculation is

Hi, I am not against this change in pricing mode, but the level seems to me to be very high, especially since this is added, for us in europe, a good VAT (20%). Even if useful evolutions are linked to