Hi Rolando, Really appreciate the effort to help. Just as a backdrop, I have been doing astrophotography and drift alignment for 12+ years. When I did my drift alignment with a high power illuminated

If you are getting no drift in your imaging scope then you are getting round stars. No drift means round stars. So, below you say you get drift pointing south, then that means you are getting drift.

The imaging scope the C9.25. I will check my drift again tonight maybe PoleAlignMax was giving me inaccurate data. Question - if I am getting no drift pointing north, or east or west and only getting

With what scope did you have no drift period? Guide scope or imaging scope? Rolando

Thank you, Chris. Shailesh

I had no drift period This is what is throwing me off.

Ray, thank for the helpful video link. In the past I haven't set the "Enable East" limits since I'm using SGP Pro and APCC warns against using this checkbox when using external control software such

If you get 7 minutes of no drift then you will get 7 minutes of perfectly round stars. That is the definition of round stars - no drift. Something you are not telling me. Is the no drift only on one

Leo, Please watch the video and configure APCC appropriately. From your screenshot, you do not have APCC configured correctly to do what you want to do. I don't know why SGPro would show the

Hi Rolando, I doubt this is a drift issue. 1) I did Drift alignment and got to 7 minutes of no drift when pointing to a star at the cross section of the meridian and the celestial equator and no drift

That always suggest that polar alignment is off. Check drift near the meridian pointing south. You may find that the Dec axis is drifting, which means that the azimuth alignment is off. Of course when

Hi Mike, Thanks for all the input. I noted that basic tracking was worse when pointing south (and later when testing autoguiding - that too was worse when pointing south). So even with no auto-guiding

Are you talking about TRACKING or GUIDING? You said you can get good unguided exposures pointing northward, but not southward while autoguiding. Autoguiding corrects tracking errors, so that

Hi All, I am using an old AP900 GTOCP1. This is a mount belonging to a friend of mine which I used extensively 10 years ago, I was able to do 15 minute unguided exposures with this mount. It

Slewing works in all directions - both from SGP and APCC controls.

Just out of curiosity can you move the scope in all 4 directions N/S/E/W with APCC or other software means? -Steve

Ray, thanks for the link. I haven't yet looked at it yet (but will do shortly) - since I'm having now more serious issue : SGP suddenly cannot do any kind of flips (including in position after

Hi, Has anyone ever tried (or currently using) the Takahashi #67 4” flattener with the AP130/GTX; or Tak #645 4” super reducer (somewhat similar to APs dedicated “quad” reducer) and gotten

Unless your computer is setup with DHCP services, the mount will not get an address. Plugging a router (typically people will use home wifi router), which is setup to handle DHCP out of the box, will

Welcome Mike! Great group and great virtual conversation. Sincerely, James Roberts