Bill, any elaboration on “useless” vs extraneous, vs optically ineffective, vs just not needed for a fine scope? Just curious as this scope is a distant dream scope for me, Tom Fischer

And here I thought Rowland was going to talk about putting a mask on his 10 inch Mak to make it a 4 “ in order to be fair to all the other telescope makers

Brilliant Andrea and thanks so much for that “breadcrumb” trail, the option “save data for later use” escaped me, now back on track, Glad you were enjoying your new Mach2! Thanks again, Tom

Andrea as a neophyte I would love to hear more of your prelim “tracking plan” workflow. Tom Fischer, INdy

out of curiosity I went to look at the CN post, it must have been taken down. TJF

Greg thanks, A veritable lecture in an email that is a real keeper!!

Roland, will the new CP5 need updated once the keypads are received? TJF ThinkPad1 From: uncarollo2 <chris1011@...> via groups.io Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Mach2

Rolando, thanks for the instruction. i have an 1100 mount and lost the step in my thinking where disengaging the clutches loses the encoder feedback as to where they are constructed and installed on t

Rolando, how many of these features would be available to the 1100 after AE upgrade (notwithstanding the mechanical features). How close would the similarities be on guiding and modeling . Tom

Dean, tell me about DEoxit and where best to get it. I use an automotive terminal cleaner, not for battery cables that I’ve used in my dads auto shop years ago, may not be best for finer electronic bo

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Roland has just described my experience with my AP keypad vs previous out of box experience. AP keypad is fairly bulletproof Tom. Ps I look forward to next version

Vincent what time of the year does your section of France go on daylight savings time or do they change clocks?

Sorry GERRT, darn autocorrect!

Gerry, this is a very nice and practical experiment that is very illustrative, thank for the analysis, Tom

+1 for Dean’s recs.. I read both of these before I went online for some visuals of how to put it in play. Still a pilgrim on a pilgrimage. Tom Fischer

As a rookie I found Trevor Jones of Canada own Astrobackyard to be a great source of grounded reason. His transition from DSLR to CCD to CMOS is well chronicled in his videos. Might be too simplistic

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Good to know , I have been believing that they were the same construct as the older 900 TJF Work Thinkpad

George, are all of these the same plug size for 900/1100/Mach 1 ? This would be nice info to keep around for eventual use for my 1100 and Mach 1 TJF Work Thinkpad