Hello all, I was looking for the manual for AP1600 with AE on A-P's website, but could not find one. Does anyone know how I can lay my hands on the manual? I am getting a used AP1600 w/AE and want to

The black flocking lining on my 130EDF dew cap has peeled off. Any ideas on how to repair it? Thank you in advance. Jim

Hi Sebastian I meant things exactly like what Roland said - he suggested it was DEC imbalance. -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

Hi Todd Have you watched Tony's (a.k.a Harley Davidson) YouTube video showing the Ridgid toolboxes ? I copied the link below. I am using the same cases for my 1100, and I have lined mine with high

Hi Brian, Just re-reading your comment above and I'm not sure I clearly understand what you mean by "basic correct setup". Are suggesting I should refine some settings within the imaging/guiding

This indicates a severe unbalance in Dec which puts a lot of pressure on the gear teeth and causes high friction. Check your Dec balance by sending the mount to Park1 or 4 or 5 and loosening all 4

I searched through some older threads but thought I would make this one more specific, and updated, as the last one was several years old. I would like to purchase two separate travel cases for the

Mike Dale provided a good explanation to your questions. I would add though that the different sounds you hear running the mount in the reverse direction is the result of the gears pulling on the back

1. You'll need to run PEMPro for a new curve anyway, even if your spur gears stayed in the same orientation. When you do work like this, you're essentially committing to that as a step in the process;

I finally removed my DEC gearbox on my AP1200. I haven't done the RA yet. The mount has been getting a bit louder with each passing Winter and started really talking this last WInter on the first

Hello Sebastien, I sent you an e-mail, please check. Roland

Sabino, I sent you an email directly with the greasing instructions. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-222-6538 (direct line) Phone: 815-282-1513

Hi Sebastien, First off, remember that the declination axis does not track unless a model is present, and then it would only be extremely slow. Dec spikes pretty much have to come from software that

Thanks for your analysis Brian. What you see there is due to serious wind gusts present at the beginning of the run. I even had to remove the dew shield to help with that... But by 11:15-11:30PM,

PS i just found your PA run sorry i missed that the DEC is a little bit concerning here. this is without any motor running and 3 second exposures, and yet the DEC looks remarkably uneven, especially

HI Sebastian I suggest you take this up with AP in their forums encoder mounts like the Mach 2 require some basic correct setup, and i'm not sure yours is there (i'm not suggesting there's anything

I seem to have some very consistant spikes (about 3" in magnitude) every 130 seconds now. I have monitored for about 20 minutes long and they are very predictable... Note that I have reduced exposure

Hi Brian, Thanks for your reply. Logs here: https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_BqZp.zip I should probably have added that my imaging scale is 1.04"/px. So it's probably impacting a bit,

Hi Sebastien Please upload your guidelogs for this https://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/ Screen caps aren't enough information, but a quick glance looks like you have pretty bad polar alignment

Hello all, I'm having some spikes in my DEC guiding at times tonight. The worst ones seem to occur at periodic interval around 20-25 seconds but not all the time. Like about a dozen times in 400s