Hi Richard, Is there a problem with rotating drives in freezing cold (excluding regions close to the Antarctic, where Roland is expanding his business, I haven't heard of any so far :-))? I

Hi John, There are many examples of USB unreliability if you search the net (as with almost any other hardware interface). I've personally seen USB errors happen hundreds of times in my day job. And

Hmm, I'm not sure I'd agree - my day job is developing USB based storage systems and if it's good enough for reliably transferring tens of megabytes of data per second, it can probably cope with a few

I own these extraordinary telescope from september but I don't can mount directely over the 1200GTO because the tube are alone without any rings. I can install it over another telescope with Losmandy

I read the manual is available a way to situate the telescope in the "wrong" side of the 1200GTO using the Meridian Delay feature. But I don't used yet. I want know if is possible use these feature

Joe, I forgot you were in Toronto (my home town!). Yes, all good points. My laptop is running off 120v AC so I don't think my HD spins down. At those temps my battery would last about 2

Hi Roland, I am heading to Kauai in mid-January. Thanks for the description as this is my first trip and I had no idea what to expect. Bob

Hi Stuart, Thought about that too, in my own winter conditions., in Toronto. My plan is to tape a red filter sheet inside a large Zip-Lok bag, maybe a large "turkey roasting" type from the

Rolando, Of course my wishes went to Marj too. That's great that you've been there so many times. We went to Oahu and the Big Island after Desert Storm and I stopped over a couple of days

Richard, this is interesting. Thanks for the info. I have been pretty lucky with the laptop in the cold and only had trouble booting up twice due to cold. A quick trip inside did the trick both times.

Joe, these are good points. I did investigate the tolerance of the LCD screen to cold and was advised that the HP machine I had was probably safe to -20C and probably -25C (about as cold as it ever

Big One. Hhmmmmm .... for some R&R Enjoy! not figured). > Santa will be busy this month and many folks happy for being good the past year. Anthony.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-gto/files/3600%20El%20Capitan/showroom112907-1.jpg of our I can't believe how "small" the AP1200GTO looks compared to the "other" one! LOL. Also, interesting to see

here's the product for the notebook (and is bootable) http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp for a desktop you can this:

I haven't tried this.... I was confused earlier: I thought the adaptor took USB thumb drives, but alas they use Compact Flash. Either way they are plentiful and cheap. If you run tight on space,

Hi folks. I'm using an AP1200GTO, AP130EDT and SBIG ST4000XCM, and i'm having my first go at getting autoguiding. I have the CCD aligned so that the star correctly moves left/right and up/down when I

Rolando, Now I am intrigued! Maybe I'll have to go with the French tipper (at least I think he was French) on the new scope speculation, something about hyper..... Maybe I ought to scour the

Hi Stuart, Straying a bit OT, I just wanted to comment about using an old "portable" laptop in the cold. Last year I decided to run a series of cold soak test of an old IBM laptop in my

Rolando, Thanks. I guess I date myself as to when I became AP-aware. Sincerely, Greg

has anyone considered using either a diskless node or using a solid state drive for the "cold" computer? the solid state drives are really coming down in price and I did see an adaptor offered some