Hi Members and Roland, I want to know how to set up my system over the next week to deal with the various DST issues. I have an AP 1200 mount that is set to "Ext". The keypad was used to turn DST "On"

Ray, A huge thanks for making these photos possible and available. It is great seeing similar faces as well as putting a face to known names. Judging by the photos, it must have been a really sweet

Perhaps this will help: http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/Pier_Design.htm Clear skies, Edd Weninger

Niels, I can see it now - a grossly deformed pier, with the AP1200GTO pointing off by 30 degrees... More than likely it won't be a hammer that I hit the pier with - it will be my head!!! Sand is a

Rick, It would be great if some of the Astro vendors would put out a "white paper" on pier design, with guidelines for weight bearing, stability, and dampening, etc. They would not have to

here are my polarization images from UTC 25 Oct (less than 24 hours from eruption). the polarization difference method highlights some features hidden in other images without introducing the

James: Thanks, that helps alot. Some final questions. It sounds like you have a 4 foot square concrete footer block followed by a 3 foot round tube concrete extension block. Inside of this is a

I'm an equal-opportunity imager. I have images from my Epsilon f/3.3 astrograph with SXV-H9 and my Televue 4-inch refractor with Canon 20D. I also have a "digital sketch" of what my

Hi James, Thank you for your reply. I agree that there is no reason to fill concrete in the tube. However, due to the friction among the grains, sand has a good damping effect -- should you beat the

Thanks Roland - I am sure that it will look great on one of your AP3600GTO's... Two pieces of art and workmanship :-) James lot of scope for the money for sure. Excellent optical design

It was a really great conference. Professional in every way and lots of fun. As Ahnold said: I'll be back! Rolando

I have seen the Plane Wave CDK20, and it is an awesome instrument. A lot of scope for the money for sure. Excellent optical design and execution and workmanship. Rolando

Here are more photos from all three days at AIC. I made the photos from Day 1 are also larger

Thanks Dean. Sorry, no computers in my observatory, yet. I'm old fashioned that way, and i am still using film too... yeah, a dying breed. May try an exposure tomorrow night, although the weather is

areas, so you end up chasing your tail trying out other people's "fixes" The best fix is to determine the cause of the problem directly. Indeed, as far as I can determine it is an issue with the

I cant wait to hear a pempro run, and hope you will report under 3 without pec on!! Congrats on the new mount. 2 weeks & 6 days to go for mine, but who is counting :) Dean

Hey all, The new 1200GTO arrived on Friday, was setup on it's pier with no trouble on Saturday and tonight I've run a couple 2 star alignment routines and it's fairly close. I'm going out later to

Hey guys, just in case you're local and need one of these? I have for sale a Le Sueur Astro-Pier, 42" for an Astro Physics AP900GTO Mount. This pier is in excellent condition and will provide an

Tom, Awesome idea! I will do exactly that... James

It was great to see both Marj and Roland at AIC this year. What a mount! I got on the notification list which already had quite few noteworthy names on it. It should carry a large astrograph in Oz