You can "sync" thru APCC, it won't cause a problem even if you are upside down. Rolando

Coming from a pathology background I wouldn’t saddle anything as great as an A-P mount with such a dubious label. I’d vote for something like “freedom edition”.

Dear All, I am doing counterweight up imaging to extend tracking time; in the hand controller manual, we are told never to "synch" with CW up, but rather to "re-calibrate" to improve pointing

Max, The dome logic has not changed in APPM for a very long time (several years). Likely something else down the line has changed, like the dome control software. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC

I tried passive last night. It did not help. Is there a way to download older versions of APCC pro? I would like to install one from early January as a test . Thanks Max

Version V maybe? Or CV-19 perhaps? Rolando

Thank you for the update. I've never had an issue waiting but this COVID-19 is driving me stir crazy. It feels good to have something to look forward too. You might need to add a virus sticker

In Maxim you want to use "Telescope" for guiding. But you first have to connect to the mount via your USB cable, same as PHD. Click on the little Observatory Dome icon to bring up the Setup window.

Spent some time playing with Autoguiding in both PHD2 and MaximDL, adding a 3-second delay between images (not sure in MaximDL as I kind of guessed where to enter that value). Both worked well given

Hi Astronuts, Just a quick update on the progress of Mach2 mounts. We are still working at AP to get mounts out the door. Although the factory itself is shut down for now, we have a number of

Wayne, yes you can and should leave tracking rate correction on. You might be able to track ISS but the computer time has to be perfect and ISS not have changed course after you acquire coordinates

Ray would I still leave tracking correction on while using Horizons? Just tried Horizons for tracking the BepiColumbo mission. Got it to work but would have to cut down a number of trees and

Yes, would have to as it would override the lunar/solar setting. A better option is to use Horizons (the application included with APCC) to get the dual axis motions of the moon or sun. Then tracking

Wayne, Have you tried turning down aggressiveness? You may be chasing the seeing. Also, have you tried back to back switching between model on versus model off? It could be seeing was worse at that

Hi Max, Have you tried configuring Passive mode in APPM's Dome Settings? -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro Author of PEMPro V3:

I was trying to using POTH with APPM It is not longer aligning with the dome. Worked fine with APPM in 2 months ago It looks to me like the dome thinks it is on the wrong pier side. The scope driver

Yes, that works. Roland

What I'm doing now is hand-tightening all clutches as hard as I can, but I will make sure I keep them consistent

That's a question for ray Gralack, but I would assume that you would set the tracking rate to lunar or solar and the model would automatically not apply corrections. Roland

Also another thing - on the Mach2 make sure that all 4 clutch knobs are equally tightened, especially in Dec. If you have only one or two snugged you may get slightly longer reversal delay in some