capability? Another one who would advocate you getting the AP1200 with the weight, moment arm of the refractor, and imaging. There's just so much more the 1200 has going for it than the extra grand

John, Either scope alone, even geared-up would do fine on a 900, but I think that doing both is on the hairy edge, weight-wise. I think that the guys down at Dome C regularly go higher than this with

Hi John, Spend the extra grand and get the 1200. You'll never regret it. Kurt capability?

Yep, you can never have too much mount :) Dean

Pawel, those are known as 'ocillations', check the following; ...First try Lowering the 'Aggressivness' in the Guide Tab for that axis, this will probably eleminate the problem. ...If that doesn't

New to the AP-GTO group, and with a question: I'm planning a mount upgrade in my permanent observatory. Pier mounted. I'd like to put my C-11 and my Meade AR-6 on the same mount using a side-by-side.

Recently I've bought three years old second hand AP1200 CP3. A week ago I've tried to take my first guied pictures. The weather wasn't very good that night but I made some tests. This is my first

Hi Ron, this is assuredly true. But it has been 4 years too long. I wonder how much larger it will be than 12", to utilize the EL Biggie? BC - In ap-gto@..., "rsampsonus"

Thank you Joe for the info and thank you Ray for the definative confirmation. I will try tonight (sky willing) to get 6 cycles. Additionally Ray, I had absolutely no problems using the Polar

Dear Group, I finished processing 9 hours of exposures on NCG 2407, Caldwell 7, taken with my ST10XME, and AP nosepiece reducer, through a Meade 12" LX200R, loaded up on my AP900GTO. Using the SKY,

Hi Patrick, 6 cycles is what I like to recommend. You can get away with less if seeing is very good. -Ray

Hi everybody! If you've been trying to e-mail anyone at Astro-Physics directly for the past two days, we probably did not receive your e-mail. We also have not been able to send any e-mails. The

AstroDude, if I remember the documentation you should be able to get away with as little as three cycles. But I figure I have plenty of time during the Full Moon cycle to tweak and adjust things so

All, I own an AP900GTO CP2 and have a Tak FSQ mounted. I finally got around to using PemPro V2 (update 37) last night. I first used the Polar Alignment Wizard and got my mount to under 1 arc-minute

Well Trent is auctioning off his 10.0" MakCass on A-mart and he is part of the Beta crew each and everytime a new Roland product is designed. So there is something in the pipe otherwise Trent wouldn't

Wow, I wonder what he is working on--which obviously needs to be a "Big One" too, to mount on the EL Big One? Larger than the 10" Mak? Anyone got a clue, while the master is away? Bob Cuberly Big

I just downloaded at 387KB/sec. Maybe there were a number of people downloading simultaneously. -Ray

Yes the CCDware site. download 3. get it show full time that

Which site? CCDWare? -Ray

There's too many variables to say exactly. It depends on how much free time I can get to work on it over the holidays. -Ray