David, It seems strange that you have COM3 as a virtual port. How do you have them set up? Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct

I'm still having intermittent problems with my Mach2 parking itself. Today, I was running it inside, just as a test, and it parked itself after several hours of tracking fine, while the driver was

Cleaning up paperwork and filing... Is there a need to register anything, software or mount, bought directly from AP?

Interesting illustration. Thanks. -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

> How is the Dec-Arc tracking region determined? You define the points in APPM the same as you always have. The dec-arc region is bounded by the edge of the sky data points created using APPM.

Hi Ray, I thought I understood and not Ray it is not clear. I have my All-Sky model which is active on APCC (150 points for example). I just take the mount out of its park situation. Situation 1: I

As I have said several times in other posts, if a target falls outside of the Dec-Arc tracking region the all-sky model's tracking rate calculation will be used instead. And of course if the target is

Thanks Ray, I can imagine that there are some complexities in calculating Tracking Dec Arc. But I was still wondering if the calculation was done permanently or not and therefore since we have an

Driver version = 8.0.337.0. Does APCC need to be connected to the mount?

you don't need two models. You can enable dec arc tracking with an all sky model the whole "you can build a smaller model with two dec arcs, one on each side of your target" is really for mobile

Hi, I think there is a gap how APCC is using the Models. What is happening when you build up a whole sky model and then use later a Dec-Arc Model cause you have changed something on your Equipment.

Hi Dale, If you generate a custom CSV file, APPM will simply use those points, so if there are horizon limits those would have to be accounted for in NINA when creating a CSV file. There should be

Yes, the target's coordinates can be retrieved by a plugin from the sequence. The plugin would just recurse back through whatever hierarchy of sequence instruction containers there are (it's akin to

I too simply downloaded the new version, installed it, licensed it and the new drivers were in place. Windows 10 20H2. -- George Prineville, Oregon

Hi Dale, You wrote: Nope, it is not far-fetched at all. In fact, I was thinking that could be done when I was writing my post! :-) -Ray

Thanks for bringing this up.  I was going to ask about this. My ideal workflow with dec arc tracking and NINA would be to create a custom action that automatically invokes APPM to collect sample

Hmm. I have an idea here. So what you're saying is that I could, in theory, auto-generate a point map file (CSV format) based on the target's declination. The user can specify how many

Yes, that is correct! -Ray

Thanks again Ray. It was my misunderstanding of the terminology that was sending me off track. -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

Hi Dominique, The Dec-Arc tracking does not simply use the closest declination arc There is a complex two-dimensional algorithm used to interpolate the appropriate tracking RA and Dec tracking rates