Kevin, Are you connecting through the ASCOM driver (AstroPhysics GTO ASCOM Mount)? Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email: george@...

Peter As Dale points out, Polaris is not exactly at 90.00 degrees. For visual and crude navigational purposes, Polaris proximity to the NCP (<0.75 degrees) is good enough and if any of us are around

Anyway I am driving the mount via a GOTO command from APT (Astrophotography Tool) and the mount seems to completely ignore the Meridian delay setting. I use that extensively to get the most imaging

Polaris does not sit directly on the north celestial pole. It's J2000 declination is 89 16' 05". If it were exactly on the NCP, it would be at 90.0 degrees. Even if it was exactly on the NCP right

I thought Polaris did not move at all, and its angle corresponds to your latitude? It stays at the same place day or night. Everything rotates around it.

Hi Ray, based on your info and the help of an astro friend, the problem could be solved. What you have already pointed out and also described on the Astro-Physics website, in the depths of Win10, the

Because of the height of my pier Polaris is at a fairly good angle to reach the secondary mirror. I used Merak.

Yes, certainly. Rolando

Hello, I had a Mach1 GTOCP4 for 1 year and I used it in my observatory. I happened to use the WIFI connection to do positioning with Skysafari, but I did not if at the same time I had the USB / Serie

Thank you!! Eduardo Livre de vírus. www.avast.com.

Excellent. I will just keep doing what I have been doing then. Slews at 600x have always been good enough for me. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

The mount will not stall at 12 volts. It has the same capability as it has at 24 volts. except it won't slew as fast. Rolando

Thanks Roland. the part in your previous post about "stalls and/or resonance situations" got me thinking that I should run the mount at 24 volts instead of the 13.6 volts that I have the power supply

Depending on time of day, Polaris can be underneath the mount with counterweights straight up. Rolando

Why did you choose Polaris to collimate your scope? There are hundreds of other stars you could use instead. --- Mike

A go to is not the same as an alt/az pointing that you would use to line up a polar scope in the center of the RA axis on a mount. In a go to the Declination of Polaris is 89 degrees 20 minutes, so

Eduardo, just run the installer, the driver settings will be kept but it does no harm to check after installation. As for the settings of the computer for the notation of numbers, in Europe mainly ","

I was trying to point at Polaris with my Mach1 to collimate my scope. I put the coordinates in SGP and the mount did crazy stuff...counterweight up, and got out of sync. How do you do that?

No need for the inverter unless you want to run the mount at 24 volts. Using an inverter wastes power, better to run at 12 volts directly. The mount is most efficient at 12 volts. Without the keypad

Ok, now that raises a question for me. While we do have 120V power at the observatory, it is unreliable [rural location, the utility sometimes shuts it off to prevent brush fires, a club member may