I agree just been procrastinating and tempting fates. Ludwig

The keypad protector is a must in my book. Last summer at our clubs site we set-up on concrete. Late one night I missed the knob at the top of the pier to hang my keypad on. Well the keypad crashed

Buy a large container of cable ties ( Costco) and stand back and do a lot of planning and routing. It is possible to get it all under control in such a way that you end up with one "pigtail that

I screwed a large headed pan head screw into the side of the small wooden table set up with the laptop and hook the controller to this. It would have been a nice touch to have a dedicated "parking

I'll throw one more idea in. If you regularly use your AP pier-mounted scope in your backyard on AC power, you can usually fit the AC converter box into the pier itself (resting on the interior

Here is a real simple solution that a friend showed me, I just use an elastic pony tail band and hooked it onto the hanger. Same way you attach your luggage tags. Then just hang the controller onto

Hello Art, I had that problem and decided to loosen one of the screws one the pier where the plate goes into the pier and I used an aluminum wire a little thicker then a coat hanger, bent a hook

OK, this is a silly question, but the keypad controller has a nice retractable hanger. I can't find any place on the mount to hang it!! Suggestions? And while I'm at it, any suggestions for good

art@... writes: I bought a plastic hook with a self-sticking backing at a hardware store and just stuck it to a tripod leg at a convenient height. Has worked out fine. Hasn't snapped

In response to Roland's question below: I believe CCDSoft allows you to enter the declination of the current object so it can "scale down" its corrections depending on the DEC of the object. I

Looking at your image you have essentially what appears to be an oscillation resulting in the "dumbbell" appearance of the stars. I had a similar problem that was fixed by being sure that there was

Niels, As I understand the question, it was not about alignment but polar movement and could it be detected. Persession will render Polaris unusable as an alignment star in a few 1000 years and the

Another possibility..were there 2 stars of similar brightness on the guide chip? This will _really_ screw up the guide routine (the software may not always guide on the same star) Randy day

One more thing, Bill. You can test out the connections during the day by setting the button rate on the 900GTO hand controller to something large, like 12x or 600x and use the Move Telescope buttons

gardner.w@... writes: I looked at your graphics, and do not understand the following statement: the declination even though I am controlling the mount >> Can you tell me what is meant by

Sorry for the cross post. After months of only having a few clear nights, I am still having absolutely no luck with getting my mount and camera to work together to autoguide. I have put together a

Hi Art, That dotted line points to a star outside the field and is not important. As long as the other reference points are lined up, you are all set. I will e-mail the instruction sheet for this

I have what is purportedly an "older model AP" polar alignment scope. The reticle is illuminated with a self-contained LED and battery unit rather than the corded current version. The reticle

The movement of the pole dose not matter at all because the earth rotion axis and the mountings rotation axes will remain fixed to each other (and woble together). The only things that change are the

--- In ap-gto@y..., "Andy Forsberg" <CS-Imaging@p...> wrote: Hello Andy, Thanks for all the very good info. Polaris does move around a fair amount. I see what you are saying about the tectonic