Can you also post the AP V2 ASCOM driver log file so that we can see what the driver was doing? -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

Until they get over themselves and add Park3, I have given up on SkySafari too. I have been asking them for Park3 for YEARS. -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI

Good luck on that! SkySafari hasn’t been the same since they sold out to Simulation Curriculum. It’s still a great APP and I use it all the time, but support and feature requests have kind of

The problem with Luminos is they require iPAD or iPhone products and they refuse to work with Android devices. Not good business since there are far more Android devices than Apple devices. Peter

Hi All, I just gave up on SkySafari and switched to Luminos. I had to use APCC to initialize to P3. Luminos lets you initialize in any position and has more controls of the mount like slewing and

PUH-LEEZE ask them to add Park3 too... -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

We are working with Simulation Curriculum. Clear Skies, Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-0910 Fax:

Not a big deal Brian. 🙂 -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

>>>It really appears to me to be that somehow PHD2 (and ASIAir guiding - which borrows from PHD2) is sending something to the AP900 controller that turns off or stalls the tracking. okay now i'm

Again there is no GTO2 mount with CP4 chip. There is a 900 GTO mount. There is a CP4 servo controller which does not have chips. It is software programmable, whereas the older CP3 controllers were

Sorry, mixed up my GTO's and CP's...it is an older GTO2 mount with an upgraded CP4 chip. It really appears to me to be that somehow PHD2 (and ASIAir guiding - which borrows from PHD2) is sending

I think the problem may be that the controller is a very old version CP2 which may have a chip in it that is not compatible. This appears to be a second hand mount and who knows what the first owner

Dean sorry - i didn't mean to suggest you interpreted incorrectly, all i was saying is that the first move, if everything that was written is correct, was not likely the culprit of the lost

Well that is what he said above and the log that he posted says that the star is lost at the first calibration move. ;-) -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

Set the keypad to a button rate of 1x and press E and W buttons. The mount should go at 15 arc sec per sec in either direction. When you release the buttons the mount should then resume tracking at

>>>So the star gets lost because the mount stalls at the first calibration command. i really don't think that's what's going on if you can provide your relevant PHD log and debug files it would be

So the star gets lost because the mount stalls at the first calibration command. i wonder if the mount will stall if you try Bryan’s suggestion to move the mount using the PHD2 virtual keypad? --

The only thing I can think of is that somehow the mount is set at 12x instead of 1x guiding speed. Rolando

Great! Glad it's working for you. So now you know the drill in case you get lost again ;^)) Rolando

thanks for all the suggestions...sorry if I haven't been very clear and perhaps confounding ASIAir and PHD2.. I've tried both: guiding through ASIAir app and directly with PHD2 from my laptop which