Rick, PAM is very fast and convenient to use, both for measuring the misalignment and for correcting. What I do observe is that: - the results are not exactly repeatable (say you just measure the misa

Will do !! But as you might have guessed, clouds rolled in now and are there to stay for a while. Anyway, during my tests I managed to take a few B&W pics of classic objects, just to confirm that no s

Hi Bill, on the polar scope adapter itself (that part of the mount that has a knurled grip, where the polarscope screw in). The two strips are on top for each other, in order to reach the needed thick

Dear, I initiated a while ago a (very long) series of posts describing my difficulties using the PASILL4 polarfinder on my new Mach1 mount. Start is post #21642 This post is to close the issue. I beli

Hi Rick, Any idea & suggestions welcome, never hesitate. Well, I do not think that this effect has to do with reticle centering. While rotating the reticle housing, the reticle rotates and the backgro

Hello Roland, You refer to a post on ap-ug, not ap-gto, right ? I wonder if the problem might be in the rotation of the reticle housing itself: when I rotate, objects close to the edge move out then i

Jeff, thanks for the idea but I do not think so. Maybe I was not clear. 1) for my post below, ignore the reticle; just concentrate on the field of view. What I say is: the field of view (FOV) changes

I forgot to add that I noticed the following: I center an objet in daylight on the reticle; I verify that rotating the reticle holder does not induce a significant move of the referenced object. Howev

Hi Dean, yes I love the mount as well - my first AP. But I am still not (yet ?) in love with the polarscope, unfortunatley. Could you do a simple test for me - hereby risking that Roland names this te

Thank you, Ray. Seems that I still need to have a closer look at the "Rate inversion" theme: I cannot figure out a rule of thumb yet, sometimes the results are excellent and sometimes I need to invert

Hi all, This one for Ray I think. I wrote a small (and primitive) script to derive the RA and DEC drift rates for PG. Basically, I take two images separated by an interval of a few minutes, plate solv

Hi Dean, could you confirm that your model is effectively a PASILL4 (ie the latest one, with engravings till 2030 and rotating housing) ? Thanks ! Pierre drift all 3 happen

Hi, I think the NCP is at the correct position as well. I placed in the Files section, folder phenrotay, a file named: smp_dscn_1.jpg which shows the result. It is the addition of a SkyMap bitmap (I a

Hi Samir, thank you for the tip, looks like a good idea. I just did so, but not using TheSky which I do not have: - in SkyMap Pro, I made a map of the area next to the North Pole (about 15 degrees wid

Hi Dean, lucky are you ;-) Thank you for these test reports. This indicates that I have a particular problem with mine - or, not to be excluded yet, that I repeatedly did something wrong (but in my la

Larry, yes, I did. PEMPro is giving slightly different results compared to PAM but of the same order of magnitude. I used PAM because I am used to it (and it is fastest). Images taken after polar alig

I placed a drawing, not meant to be 100% accurate but it gives a fair idea of the respective positions: look in the files section: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-gto/files/phenrotay/ with name

Dear, I started a few weeks ago a long thread concerning the usage of the PASILL4 polar scope on my Mach1 (starting with post #21642). Hereby the updated status. I got the chance yesterday night to te

OOPS...indeed. And it is explained in details in the keypad manual. Silly me. I need to apologize for my useless post. Please ignore that post, sorry again. Pierre Time. > >

Hello, I am running firmware 4.15 on my Mach1. I encountered a strange issue, which can be reproduced as follows: - I select location #1, located E of Greenwich and align or resume from park etc... -