I really appreciate your report too! Virus-free. www.avg.com Virus-free. www.avg.com

Jerry, Well I for one am VERY glad and thankful for your long detailed report. Yeegads – not what I want happening to any of my scopes. Woody

I really like that shot and that is one of my summer favorites It’s a great color narrowband target too

I don't know whether Rolando will venture an opinion on this off-topic question, but I certainly will. My William Optics FLT-132 (mounted on an AP1200GTO) is 13 years old and the objective badly

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GREAT! Rolando

There’s always this solution. Don Rudny Pepeekeo, HI

Stunning! 😎 Pete

Rolando, what is your opinion about the lens cleaner available from the following website? www.photoniccleaning.com Larry

A couple of years ago, I broke down my AP1100 after it had been set up in the yard for a few months and covered when not in use. Some enterprising creature had completely filled the inside of the

Ouch, that musta hurt (in your pocketbook). Rolando

Mice can get into any space larger than the diameter of a pencil. Holes must be smaller than a pencil width to prevent mice entering. Not too sure about chicken wire working out for you. SE

Dive in, the water is warm: https://www.astrobin.com/full/jqaood/0/?nc=Uncarollo&real=&mod= Rolando

Hi Rolando, Yep mice are a menace to equipment. I had mice make a home in one of my RF power amplifiers (~$75k each). They got in via the air cooling slots which were just small 1/2" wide slots. I

Wow!! Jim

Lat week during an imaging session in my observatory I happened to see a mouse rappelling down the power cord on my nearby 1600 mount. Rather strange, I thought, that mice would use wires as highways

Probably you just need to start up TSX in Administrative mode, shut it down and restart normally. Stuart -- Stuart http://www.astrofoto.ca/stuartheggie/

So, an update. After starting over as per Ray's SGP/PlateSolve2 tutorial, I have it working again and have been enjoying the goodness of imaging without a guide scope. The Mach2 is working

Geoff, Please reference our Tech Support page. https://astro-physics.info/tech_support/mounts/keypad/keypad-maintenance-instructions.pdf Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics,

Hi Paul, 1. Make sure that you are not starting APCC "as Administrator". You do not need to run APCC with admin privileges. 2. Make sure that you are not starting SGP "as administrator". That will