Richard, Maxim 4.x (or CCDSoft) + CCDAutoPilot3. Works flawlessly night after night after night after night all from thousands of miles away. Including darks, flats and opening/closing the roof.

Stainless steel is notoriously difficult to drill. It will be hard, and compared to the surrounding aluminum it will be extremely hard. That is why an "easy-out" is anything but in this situation.

I am totally confused. If this is the problem, toss it in the garbage and order a new one from AP on Monday. I thought you were talking about the mount having a problem with a broken off threaded

Hi Ajai, I've got plenty of synchronization problem last summer until i decided to uncheck the Use Horizon Check feature in your driver. I was able to slew to objects when they were on the same

I have looked at the code and can't see anything that would cause this. The code is common to all the drivers that I write and so far no issues have been reported. Here is the code. If someone can

Hi Pete, If you do decide trying a "screw extractor", to get the rest of it out, it might be obvious, but I will state it here anyway. Remove one of the other clutch screws, using a good

Maybe a picture is indeed worth 1000 words... Here is a shot of the broken knob: http://www.santangeli.net/knob.jpg As you can see, the device is actually a hollow threaded aluminum tube with the

FYI: Ajai is investigating the issue and will report ASAP. Regards, Chuck Faranda http://ccdastro.net

Hi Pete, Be very careful that the pilot drill doesn't wander off the hard clutch screw and into the soft aluminium casting. I believe the clutch screw is stainless steel and it might work harden

My experience using Eazy Outs on exhaust studs on cylinder heads has not been good. I know that the telescope situation is different. What is the diameter of screw? As long as you are sure that

Good suggestion. I was thinking about something like this. Pete which is a assistant hold a hole to may be necessary the

Unfortunately, the piece that remains in the mount is 3mm INSIDE the casting (the knob came off with 5mm - enough to leave the rest truely embedded). Pete

Sounds like you had a faulty part. I doubt that you could have twisted it off otherwise. Now, getting it out is going to be a thorny issue. One of the first things that come to mind is to use a

Sadly, while setting up today in my yard, I went to tighten one of my RA clutch knobs on my AP900 and it snapped off in my hand. It broke off about 5mm down, so that I can just see about 2 mm of the

To all, Astro-Physics will be closed for the Holiday Season beginning December 22 and will officially reopen on Thursday, January 3, 2008. Please understand that we will not be shipping for most of

Hello Strong Man, Local hardware store ought to sell an (easy-out) which is a sort of a left hand thread tap and the proper size pilot drill for the easy-out. If it's only hand

Hi Ray, I just want to second all your points. USB is very convenient, but Ethernet is much more robust. I also find that serial is very robust. Rick (as with errors happen to

Ben, I am so impressed with my AP1200GTO, I will be looking to pick up another one during 2008. In fact, I have a little dilemma ... one AP3600 or two AP1200???? I suspect the latter so as to have

I've just taken the ST7-RC to pieces (hope I can get it back together again ;) and i'm fairly sure X+ and Y+ are swapped in the adapter. Looking at SBIG's wiring diagram, pin 3 of the 9-pin plug (X+)

Hi Ben, My comment in relation to the graphic was in response to your comment that you use the slews with the hand controller to see how close you are to having the two sets of axes (camera and