You’ve been given some good points to consider already. But don’t forget about your wall/pier heights ratio. You don’t want your pier to be to short or you’ll lose those sometimes low objects

Thx Bill. I was also considering the 1615… if anything I heard it is a good case for the AP130GT. I feel like the “9.4 inch” dimension is a bit short. But I just measured the mount with foam

Thanks for your advice.

Hi I brought my Mach1 from the US back to Brazil in a Pelican iM2720 Storm Trak Case with foam. It arrived safe and unharmed. Regards E. Oliveira Em qui., 18 de mar. de 2021 às 22:02, WMarton via

I have my Mach1GTO in a Pelican Air 1615. The interior dimensions are 29.6" x 15.5" x 9.4", so it is a somewhat tall and narrow Pelican case. However, I can't rotate the DOVEDV10 of the Mach1 under

(Apologies in advance for the mundane topic... but I just want to check my options before spending the $$...) What are you using to transport the Mach2? Caveat: I don't want to remove the saddle to

Don, Ray, thanks for your continuing advice. Soon as it stops raining I'll go at it again. I use a single monitor, but the warning window might have popped up under something else. I have seen it

Hello Ray, Yes, that would be great. At high magnifications it is required to have additional relative corrections on top of the tracking. Maybe these corrections could even come from a guiding tool

Through most of middle and high school I used a circular slide rule. In senior year I used money from my grocery store job to buy an HP45. When I got to engineering school, one professor insisted that

Am I correct that this feature is the same functionality Roland used via the keypad on the Mach2 to build a model only along the path of the target to be imaged? If so that sounds like a big win for

Impressive side-by-side Mike. Thanks! Jeff

Bob The pop up warning window may be off your monitor. Do you have a dual monitor setup? Sometimes if you happen to be using only one of the screens in a dual monitor setup, some pop ups won’t show

In the "cleaning up" domain.... Back in October during the Mars opposition, a friend told me about Topaz Labs DeNoise AI that removes noise and sharpens images.

Quite the striking image you have there, Ron. Karen AP

the STUFF is there - I couldn't resist cleaning it up a bit. Before and After. -- Ron Kramer https://www.facebook.com/Ron.R.Kramer

Bob, Nothing should happen immediately because a popup window should show a warning that you should not use Park 1. Parking won't start unless you accept that window. If you didn't see that warning

Horizons continuously slews to new RA/Dec coordinates, so the A-P mount hand controller moves probably won't have much of an effect. The drift could be from changes in the orbit of ISS. In a future

It could be a typo in the units. Remember that one RA sec/sec is 15 arc-sec/sec. I'll fix that in the next build, but it should not affect the tracking. -Ray

REALLY NICE ROLAND I had APOD contact me out of the blue asking if they could post this image. I forgot to reply until I read this, https://www.astrobin.com/full/bzte5l/0/ -- Ron

I use my 1992 vintage A-P portable 8-inch pier with my 1100GTO mount. It is rock solid, even with a 180 EDT scope, 16 megapixel camera, and piggybacked guide scope attached. I set up and take down my