I'll be there Mark, though I'll be set up at Roy and Virginia's home ... 2nd house on your right as you come into the village ... Bringing the 7" f/7 down - to do FILM work if you can believe it !!! D

The big problem is wind ... If you put a 20" RC up on these mounts, you may want a dome to give you some wind protection. Dave

Any mount can carry more than its spec'd load, but usually folks try a little trickery. I know that folks with 20" RCs who use Paramount MEs tend to try domes to get better wind shielding, and this wo

I don't know how manufacturers decide to rate their scopes for load ... It seems we always try to over do it no matter what they say. I used my AP800 as the workhorse for 10+ years before I got the ME

Saw it at the Chiefland Star Party .... nice addition. Dave

Congratulations and thanks for a couple of fine scopes ... particularly the 7" f/7 that you were kind enough to let me pry out of your hands. <grin> It is definitely my pride and joy, and something I'

OK, I just have to point out that we are all still on standard time, so I assume you mean 1 PM CST and NOT CDT ... Dave

James: did you turn on Protrack? It will utilize your TPoint model to adjust tracking. What kind of scope are you using? If an SCT, is the mirror really locked? What kind of tube? We've seen examples

This is the carbon-fibre tube? As Roland suggested, these can have differential flexure as you track across the sky. Steve Mandel had this problem when he first got his ME. What is now happening is th

Patrick: while there are a lot of really smart people here, this is really something that would be best dealt with on the Paramount list rather than the AstroPhysics list. If you have posted there abo

Pat: I'm sure nobody minds .... I was just pretty sure you were talking about a Paramount rather than an AP1200. Dave

Mark: I assume that you are trying to make a 12 Volt source. If so, you will still only have 225 amp-hr. as they are connected in series. You can have 550 amp-hr. at 6 volts by going in parallel. But

The problem is, once you make an alignment adjustment, you have corrupted your model. It then takes so many points to quantify the corruption that in essence, you are creating a whole new model. What

Mark: with all due respect, pish-tosh. I use TPoint in a portable setup all the time. I get polar aligned with it, and then do a 30 point model for pointing, and I get things fairly well-centered at a

Richard Seavey said that TheSky6 and the AP1200 he was using worked fine with Parking Mark, so it appears as if the problem is somehow related to what you are doing. I suggest you work off-line with R

Mark: this is a KEY question -- Are you using the TheSky6 built-in driver to run your mount, or are you using the ASCOM driver for the AstroPhysics mount, because this makes a crucial difference to tr

We need to be clear on this .... In TheSky6, do you use the SB driver for AP, or are you using the teleapi.dll and using the ASCOM driver? As Daniel asked in his message: If you select "Astro-Physics

OK, because I saw your questions on the ASCOM group and I just wanted to be sure, especially since Marj also stated that TheSky6 is working correctly in their testing. I'll leave you to run Daniel's t

So, what version of TheSky(6) are you running? Dave

Thanks Marj, that is a big help already to know that. This is quite confusing. Dave