Stuart It sounds like your software is sending the wrong initialization parameters to the mount when you start up causing the mount to think it is pointing somewhere that it is not. If you park the mo

Thanks for the info Barry. It gets cold up here in Calgary! Don Anderson

Impressive Konstantin! Don Anderson

What about over in Honolulu? Don Anderson

Suresh In your case, just fine tune the RAPAS alignment with a drift alignment. No need for extra gear. Don Anderson

For the OTAs you have, the AP Dove 15 dovetail and the AP 15" sliding bar (SB1500) would work pretty well. The extra length of the 15" bar gives you lots of room for adjustment once you add imaging eq

Well done Steve. Love the star colors. Don Anderson

I know. I was there a couple of years ago. Don Anderson

Did you check the worm bearings? They may have some slop in them. Don Anderson

Hey Robert Nice catch of the full moon. You can compare yours with what I took a couple of years ago with my rig. Very similar. Regards Moon In Ha Light Aug 20 2013 Moon In Ha Light Aug 20 2013 View o

Yes. Glad to hear you are going to stick with us! As Joe said in an earlier post start small with your refractor, master the basics with a more forgiving optical train then work up from there. After a

Ed Sounds like there is a bad connection in the hand controller somewhere. I would get hold of George at AP and discuss it with him. Should be relatively easy to resolve, a pin on the circuit board mi

Me too! :-) Don Anderson

Could be a bad wire in the hand control cable either in the plug that goes into the CP3 or where the cable end plugs into the hand controller circuit board. It could also be a bad connection on one of

Hey Guys I just created a folder called "RAPAS instructions" and uploaded Surish's attachment to it. Everyone should be able to access it. Good luck Craig Cheers Don Anderson

Make sure you point it to the main GSC directory. From: adamklein295@... [ap-gto] ; To: ; Subject: [ap-gto] Re: APPM plate solve catalog setting Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 3:45:28 AM I keep getting

No. You just need to set the hand pad to "EXT" on the connect me u.

Charles I use the Baader Ha,Sii,Oiii filters you describe on my TVNP127is with a .8X focal reducer (f4.8) using my SXVRH694 camera and SX filter wheel and they work just fine. I suspect they should wo

ok. Good luck with the E1 upgrade. Don

I am not sure but I believe it can be upgraded to a certain point. Not sure if the max CP2 upgrade will satisfy TSX. I would get hold of George at AP to find out. Don