Thanks Ray, I've sent you a private email to your groups3 address. Regards, Geof

Hi Geof, The driver by itself cannot introduce pointing errors unless the mount initialization parameters were wrong. That can happen when the mount is unparked from one of the park positions instead

Hi Ray, I don't own APCC, I just use the V2 driver. To be more accurate in my description of the problem, it is true that the V2 driver continues to allow me to park with CW up, BUT since August last

Hi Geof, Are you sure that the reason wasn't that you were using APCC? The driver alone has been able to park to a custom CW up position for some time, but until recently APCC could not. Starting

Thank you, Ray & Geof! I appreciate the help!

If you were only seeing 8' of alignment, that sounds close to the advertised accuracy of the gross alignment (putting polaris in the dashed circle), versus the monitor alignment. The manual is

Sorry, I meant "I thought it was because my PoleMaster *was mounted* on my saddle rather than on the RA rotation axis."

Hi guys, I had the same experience with PoleMaster and Sharpcap using the PoleMaster camera for quite a while. Polar alignment was terrible after using either methods: > 10' error after checking

I use the RAPAS each time I go out for a rough PA. I can never tell how good it is until I start up PhD2 and check it with guiding assistant. Once Polaris is behind the reticle line you can't see it

Terri, I had the same experience with PoleMaster. Just couldn’t get it closer than about 8’. However, I later found that my scope was slightly skewed from the mount. I suspect that was the

I now have a RAPAS as well. It's hard to know the accuracy difference, and how close you can eyeball it but the only way to do a good polar align without a computer. I'll report back once I've

Give George a call at AP and he will run you thru how to adjust your mount gearbox. From your description below I do not get a clear picture of what you are trying to adjust. Roland Christen

It's gotten worse and I keep thinking about that slop. If it doesn't matter like you say, then why does the manual show how to take out the slop and tells me to check it by moving the counter balance

For what its worth -- I used a polemaster and never found it to work very well, other than a rough alignment tool. I have had better results with a RAPAS unit that was calibrated after a PEMPro

I also use SGP and have a flat panel on the wall of my observatory. All I did was set a custom AltAz park position in the V2 driver so that the OTA points square to the flat panel when parked. Please

Very smart deduction! Thanks!

Hi Rathi, The attached vbscript file can slew the mount to Alt/Az coordinates and exit when the slew has completed. You will need to change the Alt Az values in the script to the values for your

Hi everyone, Is there a way to move my telescope to a specific Alt/Az position (location of my flat panel on my observatory wall) via a script? I use SGP to image and it does not support going to a

Dear at ap-gto group, lately, i gave noticed a weird behaviour with my mach1, i guess this issue comes from my hand controller but i’m not 100% sure. So here is the problem : 1-i unpark my mount

There are on forever now J On the pointing model…I ran one last night and noticed that while one side of the pier showed consistent numbers (such as .8 and .9) the other side was like 12