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

Hi Leo, Take a look at this video. It shows how to set up the mount to flip before the meridian. The only additional thing you will need to do is to enable the checkbox to send the flip point to

And also, I forgot to mention it and while this error happened to me again - sometimes SGP fails to perform the flip even when telescope has already crossed meridian. Please see attached screenshot. I

I'm attaching the screenshots with full resolution.

Hi Mark, Thanks for this ! Regarding test n°1 : the yellow LED is permanently on. The green LED blinks occasionally. Just a a reminder, the mount is directly connected to

Hello Ray, Sorry for delay in posting reply. The issue I raised in this post was about inability of SGP to perform auto flip BEFORE meridian crossing. I've learned how to setup simple meridian limits

4 is correct. It adapts to several different AP mount bases and offers multiple orientations. 4 bolts is plenty sufficient -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI

I bought a used AP1100 from astromart. It also came with the Losmandy heavy-duty tripod by AP which includes the 119FSA with fasteners. I can only bolt-on 4 screws on the 119FSA to the tripod, since

Hi Rolando, Can you tell me what your image scale is for this setup and the length of your images? Also, what FWHM are your stars and what eccentricity were your stars? Tony

Hi Astronuts, More unguided imaging with the 17" Astrograph on the 1600 Encoder mount: https://www.astrobin.com/full/pmc2n2/0/?nc=Uncarollo Closeup of the stars in the core of M13, taken during good

That’s really zeroing in on it! I like how it came out Here’s that one I posted a couple days ago at full rez I don’t sharpen so keep that in mind: levels and curves only

I shot this image with the 10" f14.6 Mak to get a closeup of the Hourglass. Trusty old STL11K with narrowband filters. https://www.astrobin.com/full/7qege5/B/?nc=Uncarollo&real=&mod= Rolando

Welcome Mike I have already seen your name on a couplemessages on the forum. Impressive ! Most impressive ! Best Regards Michael Hambrick ARLANXEO TSR Global Manufacturing Support PO Box 2000 Orange,