Yes, the more and more experience I get, the more I notice the effects of seeing. In fact, the drift I would see imaging east of the meridian did not show up like other days. Dec guiding was great.

Either way it shows what the old iron...I mean aluminum.....is capable of.

I run focus right before a model run. That should be more than sufficient for the task. I don't think ultra critical focus is needed, although Ray would know best.

Last night, it was obvious my focus was changing while I was doing point mapping. This is probably not an unusual problem since we tend to do point mapping early in the evening when the optics are

Hi David, I am glad you got it working! -Ray

Hi Bob, This particular feature was forgotten rather than abandoned. However, before a new APCC feature can continue, A-P must approve it, so I can't promise anything. -Ray

Excellent result, Tom! Could the West's better tracking be that seeing was better later in the evening or in that part of the sky? -Ray

Hi Marty, I'm glad you got it working! About needing to do autofocus midrun, is each point taking too long because it is waiting for dome movement to complete? -Ray

Update: I had to remount everything again after my imaging session last night. And after tightening the knobs by hand, I tightened it by another 1/8 turn with the Allen key -- not 1/4 turn. It's

I had the same issue when I first got the DOVELM because I’m stronger than I look :) Now, I just go finger tight and then 1/4 turn with my Allen key. Scope is held very tightly and the knobs release

I do! I haven’t used my guidescope/guide camera for so long I have forgotten where I put it. 🙂 All of my non-encoder AP mounts were phenomenal performers though. -- Dean

As you can see by the video in the other topic, I did get this to work. Thanks for the help.

You can download the video here to see it in better quality. Warning: 350 MB.

YouTube link.

From the archives a while back there was official talk that a mobile app like Sky Safari would be able to communicate with the mount via APCC. Was this ever achieved or did the idea get

Seriously, tonight I had an amazing session with my AP600 but only later at night imaging west of the meridian ( 0.45). When on the east it was much worse. 0.8RMS tracking. The mount is balanced to

I've always used an allen key to tighten up the knobs on the 16" saddle plate (DOVELM162) when mounting the scope. And then an allen key to untighten them when packing up However, when packing up this

Thanks, Ray and everyone else, It worked. Only built a 35-point model, just to test the process. One failed solve -- I think it was related to focus. Need to figure out how to embed autofocus routine

"It looks like the sides were rolled to produce the shape." Don, yes/no. I had a boiler-maker make it but there was no roller. A press was used to progressively make small bends to form the shape. I

Running APPM with CW up region for the first time. It's funny, but I had to be careful walking around the scope that I didn't block it when it's taking images when CW up. Haven't had that problem