So can anyone do this with just a mount and APPM? Using a Ha filter 2 hrs before sunset at .03sec exposure and build a model????

Dean, I use SGPro and APCC very successfully with the Mach2. I set my meridian limits using the editor and enable those limits. After doing this, and picking a target that is within those

I think what you're explaining is your new hand controller SW for the mach2, can you say when it might be available? I'd like to be able to use the hand controller at some point, even if it doesn't

If I remember correctly, although I was just assisting Roland,*I* was the one who spun the axis around and tore the cable in half on the hardplastic cable guide that comes with the 1100/1600mounts.

So the model is still valid after a meridian flip? -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin -

Finally had a night with decent (not great – 2”) seeing, and this is part of a run with my 1.6 meter focal length very long refractor (AP206). 1600 mount with encoders. Large APPM model I did

The interesting thing is, the scope arrived while I was in the rehab hospital, so one of the first things I did after coming home was to install it on the AP1200 with the help of my wife and daughter.

your shot looks great! we have to get this setup dialed in to image in earnest no diagonal in there. still hunting it down -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

If people are using FITS Liberator to import photos into Photoshop for processing, it defaults to: mirror image (or some language to that effect) and you have to uncheck it most of the time (unless

I'm going to have to shoot that one with my 17" astrograph. I recently shot it with my 160 refractor, also unguided. Posted here: https://www.astrobin.com/full/2qta6a/0/?nc=Uncarollo&real=&mod= I'm

Hehe, Yeah...I was wondering about a 130 mm guide scope :) Sorry about the stroke - good to see your still at it! In the end I went and ordered an Optec TCF-Leo which should allow me to use an OAG

>>>What kind of scope is that? ah sorry - Planewave CDK17 + FLI Profline 16803 -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

What kind of scope is that? Rolando

It was very kind of Chris to take the blame himself in his initial post. ;^) It was one of those dope slapping moments that can easily occur at 9,000’ elevation when the brain can become a bit

Awk! I can't type any more, and apparently I can't proofread either. The diminished typing ability is due to a 2007 stroke, so I usually proofread things three times to compensate. Missed big-time

wrapping up first light, I apologize for the rather terrible reflections and total lack of any calibration frames, but for 20 mins of lum integration (@ 60 sec/image) and the crazy polar misalignment

Reversed pins are not going to reverse the commands to move. I assume that you are using ASCOM to control the mount via the USB connection. The move commands are software commands so they are not

I'm impressed! Your guide scope is ten times the aperture of your imaging scope! I'm sure you meant something different. :) Mojo -- Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA

Ray - this is a fantastic program, particularly APPM. outstanding! doing our first light remote, and the technician did a very rough polar alignment. the stars were visibility moving across the screen

Yes, and I managed to break a cable on the Mauna Kea Visitor center 1100 mount doing a "regreasing" without thinking about the Dec encoder cable inside the mount. Christopher was there watching me do