Hi Karl. I’ve been traveling the past few days in places where internet access is not reliably available, so sorry for the delay. I saw your question on Discord The plugin does not disable any current

The capital M is standard for denoting meter units in the NMEA GGA sentence, though. That is likely where it comes from here.

The NMEA GGA sentence is what should be used for elevation. Fields 9 and 10 are relevant to elevation, with 9 being the altitude above mean sea level in meters, and field 10 denoting the unit, which i

How long of a run between the CP3 and your computer do you actually require? Running this won't magically make your connection more reliable, if that's what you're looking for. These RS232 to ethernet

Chipping your CP3 with a V2 ROM will get you full functionality with APCC Pro, and that includes modeling. APCC cannot work with any older version than that, so you're doing the right thing by upgradi

The Sky Atlas in NINA isn't set up internally to be extended by plugins. Despite the idea appearing to be simple, a lot of work would first need to be done to make it possible. Perhaps in the future b

It may be that the coordinates that your mount thinks it is at, and the coordinates that the plate solve found, are so wildly different that APCC is rejecting the sync - but silently. In APCC, go to S

The luxury of not having to type things in yourself, I suppose. Dimension4 is NTP; which is different. However one can make a stratum 1 time server with one of these USB GNSS modules and something lik

Why would you need to query the GPS for location more than once? For APCC, it's used once - to get a location and to make a new Site entry from. It's lot like your lat/long is going to change after ge

The $10-$15 white USB GNSS sticks based on the ublox chips seem to work well in my experience. They can operate in one of two modes - exposing themselves as a serial port that spews forth NMEA sentenc

Hi all, After a bit of a holiday break, followed by a definitely not-boring time at the day job, I was finally able to return to some coding and have a small (but perhaps big to some) update to my Ast

Sure, one can take an hour angle and declination and map it to an altitude and azimuth and, with some interpolation, generate a "horizon" file that will have a horizon with an opening the shape of the

This, importantly. Alaine, if you're polar aligning with the TPPA plugin, you will still need to slew the mount to somewhere suitable, usually in a nice clear area of the east or west sky, and do a pl

What you are looking for does not currently exist. In theory, a plugin for Stellarium could be made that reads a .pnt file and draws the necessary polygons in the sky, or adds an endpoint to Stellariu

APCC doesn’t do PEM, so you’ll have to get PEMPro for creating a new curve in any case. As for instructions, I have not seen them online but you can always try asking for them.

You could upgrade to a CP4, but you don't have to just for 999x slew speeds. The firmware of the CP3 is implemented as a ROM chip that you can pluck out and replace with a newer chip. The versions of

When you say "the finder", are you referring to the RAPAS?

This is likely the case. On APCC's window, you'll find the "AP V2 Driver" section. There's a checkbox there labeled Auto-Config. If APCC will configure the ASCOM driver with its settings IF APCC is th

Well, to be precise: NINA has the ability to drive APPM via APPM's own API and make a *new* model for a given target; but taking an *existing* .pnt file (the model definition file that APPM creates wi

My own experience with running everything off a single, common power source has not given me any issues that could be attributable to doing that. I get the feeling that there are two main reasons behi