Roland, After sending that first group.io call for help I spent several hours of testing and tweaking the CP5 and my home Wi-Fi network settings. I found what seems to be a very stable solution. No

If it's good, don't fix what works. Rolando

Roland, Last night I adjusted the back stop using the lightest pressure I could, barely touching the backstop with one finger, and gently tightening the two screws. After doing this, all the free

Ø But… why the rather unusual, 32 bit format? ASCOM Camera drivers return a two-dimensional array of 32-bit integer values. Although I don’t think any cameras exceed 16-bit values, that

@Ray Gralak: I think your analysis is bad. If I load the image into CCDStack the image obviously is not all one level. Here’s a screenshot: The screen shot resolution got munged by Google, I

Hi Linwood, I think your analysis is bad. If I load the image into CCDStack the image obviously is not all one level. -Ray Here’s a screenshot:

@Ray said: I have no idea how you are taking your images but even a short duration image in daylight can max out the pixels. Well, the lens cover was on. But I'll do it at a wall in a fairly

Thanks for the links for the docs Brian. I will go thru those to see if anything has changed in recent years. I have used PHD for the last 10yrs (I think) but I am always learning new things. More

Hi Pete there is a doc PHD offers on best practices: https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-best-practices/ One other thing I'd suggest is doing a baseline guiding setup, which can be done by following this

Refocusing does not require re-balancing. I would not worry about it. Seeing can be judged easily by turning tracking corrections off and watching the star excursions on the tracking graph in Dec. If

I agree lots to learn for the for the newer mount owners coming from "non-premium" mounts. I know there is tons of nuggets of info on best practices for both AE and non-AE 1100/1600 mounts with PHD

I have no idea how you are taking your images but even a short duration image in daylight can max out the pixels. The next step is for you to use the APCC Log Zipper and zip all of the APPM logs and

Hi Roland. FYI. I think the manual needs to be updated. The manual indicates that a balance offset is recommend on both axis From Page 27 of the 1100 GTO Manual: Precision Balancing

@Andrew Jones wrote: Kind of unrelated question, but how do you determine what your Seeing is during an imaging session? Are you just using the FWHM as reported by your imaging software or do you

@Ray wrote: First, this morning I tried the image Ray sent. I still get the weird “Expose failed(1): StartExposureNumX Set – ‘1024’” – where 1024 was the image width. It (something)

Hi Roland. I really appreciate these detailed After Action Reports.😊 These reports provide useful insight for those of us still learning the art/science of astrophotography and how to get the

Ø First, this morning I tried the image Ray sent. I still get the weird “Expose failed(1): StartExposureNumX Set – ‘1024’” – where 1024 was the image width. It (something) is picking

Probably both. Rolando

From your description it does not sound like the WiFi is toast. Call George or Howard at AP and they can assist you in connecting to your WiFi. Rolando

The backstop won't adjust the free play. DON'T jam the back stop hard into position! What does affect the free play is the retaining nut on the end of the worm. If this is loose or has backed off