Yanzhe, That is set to a foot/pound tightness. I should be left as is. If it is tightened too much, it will make azimuth adjustments difficult. Instead, check that the both “captain’s

Excited my AP1100 due Wednesday, trying to read through all the documentation. It's a little hard to sort through old vs new vs no longer true, I wonder if I could ask for a sanity check. This is

Great image Glenn. You now have peaked my interest in this star removal process. I will have to play with it. Does it place the stars into a separate Image. I am wondering if I can move that

Great image Glenn. You now have peaked my interest in this star removal process. I will have to play with it. Does it place the stars into a separate Image. I am wondering if I can move that

Guys, Remember, these are not the lug nuts on your car wheels! You do not have to tighten them more than hand tight. If you’re using a 16” to 20” CDK, then you’d be using one of our

That’s a really pleasing image, Glenn. Thanks for sharing it with us. Karen AP

We had mild wind here about 5-6MPH and so I wanted to show that as well. No impact at all to subs, and the Mach 2 handled it fine.

Here are some sample subs: AG12 Setup I took the highest and lowest FWHM from the data set and shared them.

I was working on combining data from the ZWO 2600 color and 2600 mono cameras for the first time. I had some equipment problems and the sky was not great but I did manage to get something from both

I came to notice some backlash when I moved my telescope back and forth. Initially I thought it must have been RA or DEC, but then I realized that it was the base. I tried to tighten the bolt

I think I see a trend here. The older dovetails (DOVE15 and DOVELM2) use the brass locking pins that Chris mentioned, and they also have plain knobs without the hex head assist feature. The newer

Thanks Glenn and Steve. I will definitely check those out. Mike

I have the ADM Rosette Knob Tool, which I use with their TGAD that enables me to collimate my 6" f9 with the C14 on my tandem setup. Unfortunately, there is one knob on the TGAD that is blocked by the

Hello Mike, The part is from 2005. At th time it was called DOVELM2. Maybe AP has replacement knobs? My main issue is not tightening the knobs, but loosening after an observing sessions (maybe late at

Circling back on this as I finally got to test this out. I put my 12.5" AGO iDK, Moonlight Nitecrawler, FLI Proline 16803, CFW 5-7, Sagitta OAG, and Ultrastar guide camera on the Mach 2. Balancing the

Steve beat me to it. Adam has two outstanding video series: the Fundamentals series for beginner/intermediate and Horizons for more advanced users. I subscribe to both and consider my subscriptions to

Mike you may want to look at Adam Block’s series on image processing. It’s extensive and covers a vast majority of processes and is a subscription based service backed with an active forum.

Thanks for sharing your techniques Glen. I wouldn't describe myself as a beginner, but my processing techniques are nowhere near as sophisticated as yours. I have been doing all of my processing using

It sounds like SGP cannot handle the scope's "dead zone." So, even if a way to avoid a slew collision is made available, some slews that SGP issues could fail and ruin your session. The best solution

If it were me, I would be refabbing those pier plates to eliminate the conflict. "My advice is always free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa,