Marj, That sounds like a plan and it seems like Dean had something similar. Should I ask on the ETA for the mount to ship? Or do I not want to know? :) Michael

Hi Roland, I did setup using the pasill4 polar scope and got good alignment on the two stars through the polar scope. I did not use a PE curve. Do you think slight smearing in 25 secs given that rough

I've long been attracted to the Veil Nebula, but never could image NGC6960, The Witch's Broom, because my old ST-8 CCD camera bloomed the bright star. But my current ASI1600MCP one-shot color CMOS

Michael, Our ADATRI tripod adapter can probably be attached to the top of the tripod as long as it has a flat surface. You may need to drill a few holes. We can visit that when/if you order the

That routine is not good enough for polar alignment for imaging. You will either need to use a polar scope or other precision polar align method. You will also need to have a good PE correction curve

Yea, drop it there are people here with slow connections anddon't need 24mb of video. Mike J. Shade Mike J. Shade Photography: mshadephotography.com In War: Resolution In Defeat:

Hi group, Would someone comment on the Mach1 tracking capability with only visual polar alignment using the PASILL4. I setup and aligned on Polaris and second star. I was using Cassidy double bar with

I thought it was good for a grin in this Covid-19 era. Thanks. --- Mike

Sorry about the dumb joke photo. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Michael: That's how I'm feeling also on Windows 10 updates. I'd hate to go backwards and then have security issues, etc. I'm going to stay at the 1909 version where I'm at for now. I'm going to

Hi Scott I would say that going back to the previousversion of Windows should be the last resort, and I am not sure how todo that either. I have seen comments from several people on the forum

Michael, my standard 900 mounting plate already had the three bolt pattern for the ADATRI tripod adapter. It was just a matter of bolting the ADATRI onto my existing 900 plate. -- Dean

Curtis, That’s amazing. My Keyspan hasn’t worked since Win-98 2nd Edition. Of course, I gave up on it then too and haven’t tried it since. I think Roland got confused and didn’t

Yes. Today it would flash very briefly when the system was booting up, but it never responded again. Glad I saved the old Keyspan.

Was it the adapter with the flashing blue lights? Mine croaked too about a week ago. -- Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA BridgeMojo Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers Mojo's

This has been resolved. The FTDI adapter is toast. I bought it as recently as Jan 5, 2020. I dug out my old Keyspan adapter, and I can connect to the mount. Thank you to everyone for your replies.

> Why not plug it directly into the USB connection on the controller? What USB connection?

Hi Marj, nice to hear from you as well. That did the trick, I added myself to the list. I have one of those apparently rare Rob Miller tripods from around 2011 when I got the 900GTO; strong and light,

Strange. I’ve never had my computer just randomly change a COM port assignment unless I plugged into a different USB port. In fact, I’ve labeled my main astronomy equipment USB port (that goes

Hello Michael, So nice to hear from you. The keypad from 2011 will work with the Mach2, however it will have to be updated to the upcoming v5 software and you will probably want to replace