Yeah, I've had my Mach1 since 2008 and only got APCC Standard two, maybe three years ago. I have been using Pro only for the past year or so. My reason for not jumping on the APCC Pro bandwagon much e

I don't think that anything in the astrophotography software market "intends" to compete with anything else. These various pieces of software have people that invent, maintain, and steward them, and t

I'm with you on 1-4 but this last one is a bit over the top, I have to say. I'm having a chuckle picturing it. If an EMP event were to happen that was of a proximity and magnitude to affect your netwo

No need to use a switch in the field unless you, for some reason, have multiple systems remoting into your imaging NUC. No need to turn off wifi on the NUC, either. Just make sure its list of known ne

My suggestion still keeps the NUC on the pier. I presume you would mount it as far up the pier as you can on the south side of it so it doesn't pose as much of a collision hazard. You would just be ru

Two things pop out at me: 1) You have a 1200GTO which lacks the through-mount cabling, which means any cables coming off your telescope will be suspended in air for some portion and would present snag

Just to be clear, is this NUC going to ride on top of your telescope on the mount, or sit on/close to the pier?

No, don’t go down the rabbit hole of thinking disk-backed virtual memory will save you from anything. It only delays such a problem’s eventual conclusion and is a waste of good drive space.

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How bad this gets for any one person depends on ther soil type and moisture and all that. I use pavers sunk into the ground but major shifts aren't really anything noticeable with my clay soils. I'll

The answer to what happened is at the bottom of your 2nd log file: 0805685 2021-07-110849564 2021-07-11 06:34:13.743: Severe, Command Thread, FindFreeQacIndex: no free entries! 0849565 2021-07-11 06:3

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Another display tech to consider is eink. https://www.eink.com/ Not sure about it’s extreme weather performance.

I have the QHY600M (the Pro version, but it's not likely you'll want that), and a bunch of my colleagues have the ZWO ASI6200MM. Both use the IMX455 sensor. I have other ZWO cameras, and have direct e

So I have a Plan(TM) to improve the quality of life here. NINA 1.11 has the new Advanced Sequencer and, with it, a new plugin system. The plugin architecture is based on MEF and anyone can write one u

I'm confused by what your goal is here - it sounds like you still want centering in some form, but on the other hand you want the mount to be authoritative, which means the centering operation becomes

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Hi Deon, Syncs are done by NINA or any other app via the ASCOM driver's SyncToCoordinates() method: https://ascom-standards.org/Help/Developer/html/M_ASCOM_DriverAccess_Telescope_SyncToCoordinates.htm

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If you have APCC open, you can go to Settings > Edit ASCOM Driver Settings... and look in the lower left corner of the resulting window. Change Park To: to Park 5 and make sure that Unpark From is set

Hello everyone. Here's an update on this project. The plugin system in NINA 1.11 has been more or less finalized and 1.11 build 93 contains the new Plugin Manager. Francesco has made Smart Meridian Fl

What would they need signal for? Phone GPS for location and its own internal clock are all that are required.

I think most people just use a polar align app on their phone to get a matching image when out in the field. It's what I did when I used the RAPAS. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polar-scope-align

In this case, the flip will occur when the target reaches an angle on the other side of the mount that is clear of any defined obstruction. The target will then get recentered and such (if that option