When you do 3 things at once, you really don't know what caused what. Rolando

You call during the day when he's here and talk about your connection issue. Rolando

>>>So if this was balance, I thought the mount should be perfectly balanced. Is this not the case? i suspect your success (congrats btw) is not related to changes in your balance you could of course

An update: Today I loaded the latest firmware into the CP4 and downloaded the latest release of APCC. I also very slightly altered the balance of the scope, making the mount slightly east heavy (not

Roland, Thank you. How do I do that? Preston

Hi Dale, Thanks for noticing. FWIW, APCC can "find" CP4s and CP5's. See below. If UDP or TCP is checked, you can click the magnifying glass, which will perform auto-discovery. A List of reachable

Just to be sure, today I updated the firmware and the Apcc software. I also rebalanced the scope making the counterweight side slightly heavy. Will try again tonight. Tom

>>>And absolutely no one should depend on astrometry.net as their blind solver unless they have endless night hours and a lot of patience. :) haha 100% agreement on this. Nothing worse than watching

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 02:30 PM, Brian Valente wrote: As i mentioned previously, it only really comes up on the first solve of the night. Alternatively if you don't have a blind solver and it doesn't

I would argue the opposite, Linwood ;) Blind solve is a failover, so it's only invoked if the local fails. So it's more of a backup plan Also you can limit the time for a blind solve, the default is

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 02:18 PM, Brian Valente wrote: as others have said, that's more or less correct. For reasonably well configured and set up mounts, blind plate solving would really only be

>>>So, you are saying that the approximate coordinates requested in slewing to a poison without a model, is good enough for local plate solving. Do I have that right? as others have said, that's

Minimum spot size off-axis. Rolando

A short session with Mike here at AP might solve your connection problems. Roland

Yes. If your image capture software gets the celestial coordinates from the mount, and then writes them into a FITS header, the plate solver will use them to do a "local" plate solve.

Hi Tom, I'll also have a look to see what I can find. Be patient, I get interrupted a lot! HKH

Hi Here is the log...

Thank you Bill and Don, I will check them out

Hi My understanding is that when a command is sent to the mount to move to a position, by the very design of the non encoder mount, it will move to this location precisely. I will upload a log

Roland, Can you please comment on what parameters you use for optimization of the backfocus distance from the flattener or TCC? Is it nulling curvature over a specified field or is it a trade-off