Those are amazingly sharp and highly detailed images Dean! Great color as well. What camera did you use? Esposures? Don Anderson

Hi Suresh You can shut off the power to the mount anywhere and it will remember where it is when you power it back up. However, Sirius will have moved on and you will have to issue a new goto to send

Super Geoff! Don Anderson

You can use Park 1 if you keep the keypad time synchronized with the computer time. You do this by going to the ASCOM driver and selecting the checkbox "Sync Mount to PC Time". After that, you go to y

Hello Suresh If your mount works fine with the 12V battery only, I suspect there is nothing wrong with the CP3 controller or the power cable connector where it attaches to the controller. One thing yo

Hello Suresh Whether or not to upgrade to the CP4 is a personal choice. It really depends on how you plan on using the new mount. You should study carefully the features of the CP4 controller (and the

Beautiful images Jose! Don Anderson

Suresh I suspect the lenses are not lined up properly or they were not put back in the right way around (one or both elements were put in backward). Not sure what to say. May have to go back to the ma

Hello Suresh I think in your climate, you probably have a lot of moisture and air contaminants that are corroding the internal electrical connectors for the HC coiled cable. You can probably get by wi

Hi Robert I believe the hand controllers have not changed. The upgrade will work on your existing HC however, you will need the CP4 mount controller for the new features to work. Rolando can correct m

Go for it! Got very little to lose. Don Anderson

Josep As Chris pointed out, you can replace the Serial chip quite easily. They are relatively cheap. Maybe at the same time, you might consider upgrading the CP3 firmware to Rev V. Installing the chip

Yes, the Crescent is quite faint. I like the Ha version the best. Will try it myself when I get some clear skies and warmer weather here in Calgary. Don Anderson

Robert. That's the ticket! your latest version really brings out the detail in the nebulosity especially in both the Eastern Veil and Witches Broom. I like how you have controlled the brightness of th

Yes I did tweek it(levels, curves, Noel Carboni action make stars smaller, brightness/contrast and finally unsharp mask) to give the nebulosity more punch. I tend to do that even with my terrestrial p

Hello Robert I really like your mosaic. Well done. It's on my bucket list to do one day! Like Mike, I took the libedrty of downloading and playing with your image in Photoshop. I tried posting the res

Hi Mike That's odd. I have never had that problem with mine. I did run mine through a 50' extension cord plugged into a outside outlet in my previous residence. I believe it was a GFCI but I can't say

Another good power supply that I have used for the past 8 years is an Alinco DM-330MV. It is made for the ham radio world. Is a 30 amp switching power supply with lots of connection options. It also h

Very good work Geoff! Don Anderson

Sounds like bad contacts somewhere in the cable. I would get some good quality electronic spray contact cleaner. Pull the plug off the circuit board on the HC and spray the cleaner on both plug and pi