Dive in, the water is warm: https://www.astrobin.com/full/jqaood/0/?nc=Uncarollo&real=&mod= Rolando

Hi Rolando, Yep mice are a menace to equipment. I had mice make a home in one of my RF power amplifiers (~$75k each). They got in via the air cooling slots which were just small 1/2" wide slots. I

Wow!! Jim

Lat week during an imaging session in my observatory I happened to see a mouse rappelling down the power cord on my nearby 1600 mount. Rather strange, I thought, that mice would use wires as highways

Probably you just need to start up TSX in Administrative mode, shut it down and restart normally. Stuart -- Stuart http://www.astrofoto.ca/stuartheggie/

So, an update. After starting over as per Ray's SGP/PlateSolve2 tutorial, I have it working again and have been enjoying the goodness of imaging without a guide scope. The Mach2 is working

Geoff, Please reference our Tech Support page. https://astro-physics.info/tech_support/mounts/keypad/keypad-maintenance-instructions.pdf Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics,

Hi Paul, 1. Make sure that you are not starting APCC "as Administrator". You do not need to run APCC with admin privileges. 2. Make sure that you are not starting SGP "as administrator". That will

Thanks Konstantin. That figures. I’ll look into doing that.

Hi, You have to reload the database. Grüsse Konstantin v. Poschinger Hammerichstr. 5 22605 Hamburg 040/8805747 0171/1983476

Ok, I misread one of the later instructions and thought there were two battery connectors that had to be removed. I installed a new battery, but the data base refuses to point properly, so I still

Thanks. My understanding is that APCC talks directly to the mount, and the ASCOM driver sits above APCC and the apps (SGP) talk to that. I haven't got APCC configured to auto-start the driver (I think

Paul When I start up APCC the driver ALWAYS starts automatically...I think the driver MUST start to connect to the mount. I never have to start the driver on its own. I am unsure why this does not

So is the lithium battery connector just the white plug with the blue and yellow wires?

This may well be an SGP issue, but let me ask here just in case anyone has seen this ... or hopefully Ray might have some insight. I have an issue where - I start APCC and connect it to the mount and

The attached photo shows the coin cell and where the wires plug into the box. --- Mike

This is probably going to be a "doh" moment, but I am puzzled by the following line on P11 of the keypad maintenance manual "Unplug the lithium battery connector. Note the Real Time Clock (RTC )

Hi Peter, It's not a performance issue. It's a compatibility issue. You will not be able to use some USB devices on a Mac with Parallels that you would be able to use with Fusion. That's because

I used to use Bootcamp but opted to try out Parallels when I changed my MacBook Pro to run Win 10 last January. I do like Parallels simplicity without having to restart to the Boocamp Windows

Yes, it is still around. But won’t be for the next release of macOS (Big Sur), or for Apple Silicon based future Mac systems. Thorsten