Bruce, Interesting comments regarding Vito. My experience has been the exact opposite (with PT mobile observatory). Once I’d fully paid him, it was mine – along with all its problems.

Wayne, I can't help you with SkyX Pro crashing but you might want to make sure you have the latest daily update installed. Also, you may have done this but as it says in the help file: "TheSkyX Pro

APPM can send a command for SGPro to take an image with SGPro's camera. Things like binning, full or subframe dimensions, and duration are passed to SGPro. Later, after the image has successfully

I believe so…but I do know that if you don’t have the right scale set in APPM the Plate Solve will fail…even if the right image scale is set in SGP.

Right that is another option! So the settings in APPM - such as scale and binning - inform SGP and override its settings?

FWIW. I’ve always used plate solve with the camera connected in SGP when using APPM and never a hitch (as long as you have the correct image scale in APPM).

Hi Ray, Decided to use the time last night to try my hand at modeling! Just using a simple 11 point model of my sky. Spent a great deal of time trying to get plate solving to work. I have a QHY 268C

Jack, Are you thinking of getting something like the PT-3 dual pier column that Pier-tech sells? I know you mentioned Pier-Tech previously but looking for another source as it is expensive. I must

Jack, I must admit that I have a bit of trepidation that the two pillars might become unsynchronized – one passing by the other pillar height position. Image if it was more than an inch of

Hi Mikko, Frankly, nothing simpler on a Mach1 I still have the CP3 and I also had a CP4 with a station made with the keypad. Since I am near the meridian of Geenwich I chose to operate in UT (PC and

Jack Which model control box and hand controller do you use? Are they universal to all column models? My rig (127mm refractor AP-900 mount) is not that heavy would likely go with a single column. Not

Thanks Jack I have a lathe and drill press and could do some work myself. Will look into this further. Thanks for the link to the Linak site. Will check out their site as well as Ebay. Keep safe Don

Hi Mikko, After you recal/sync the mount via a platesolve and return to one of the park positions it can appear to be in the wrong position under certain conditions such as: * The pier/tripod is not

Christopher, I just checked Ebay and there were several Linak lifting columns and accessories available. The key is getting a system with hand controller, control box, cables and lifting column.

Don, I do not know if Linak sells direct to the general public. Here is a link to their website: https://www.linak-us.com/products/lifting-columns/ The DL2 is the column that I have been using. If

I tried to download from the website, but I think they are shut down. You can do it from the DC-3 Dreams web site. It is not as bad as they make it out to be. Frank

Well it seems that "park from the last position" was the cure and yesterday evening the Mount slewed were it was supposed to and plate solved the first image in seconds as before this whole episode

Thanks for the tip Chris Keep safe from Covid2 Don Anderson

Park 3 is on purpose not exactly at the celestial pole, but close. So, that's okay. It seems like unparking from last parked position has solved the problem, correct? It's always safer to unpark from

I have seen a fair number of Linak re-sellers on eBay. -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com