I'm not an A-P'er yet, but hope to be soon. I was on the notification list for the AP1200 and am now waiting on the AP1600. I'll be at both TMSP and OSP. With any luck, I'll have my mount for Oregon.

I am in an RV. At Table Mountain, I usually set up across the dirt road from the vendors, just north of the gully. At OSP, I have been setting up near the loop, just north of where the Detloffs set up

Hi Harry, I hadn't told you yet that I went with the AP1600. I was in the process of getting the AP900 when they discontinued the AP1200, but when I saw that the introductory price on the AP1600 was m

I would love for that to happen, but I'm not holding my breath. TMSP is only about 5 weeks out. As far as I know, AP has not started shipping them yet. On June 6, Marj sent a mail to this list saying

I am heading up to Table Mountain tomorrow evening to get an early start. I'll be staying up there through the star party next week. I'll also be going to Oregon Star Party next month (and will also b

I set up on the east side of the road that leads to the telescope field, just north of the gully. This is about where vendor row ends, and is just a bit north of across the street from where Hulan Fle

"Do you plan on taking your 1600 GTO to star parties?" Yes! Living in the Seattle area, as you know, we get very few clear nights. Additionally, I live pretty deep in the forest, so my horizon is at a

Right now, the C14 is my main visual mount. I picked up the dob last year because my son outgrew the 6" dob that he's been using since he was 7 (he's now 14). He prefers starhopping with a dob over a

Are you going to be updating the latitude dimension calculator to include the 1600 soon? I am thinking about how things will fit with my setup and what kind of pier I will need. Thanks, -Wade _____ Fr

Hi Wayne, I missed you at OSP, and a couple of people were asking if you were there. There was lots of AP equipment over in the imaging area and your Mach1 would have fit right in. Dust control at OSP

PCMCIA is an old standard. At some point along the way, it was replaced by PC Card (which may be the same thing, but renamed). My current laptop (a Lenovo W520) was the first machine I owned without P

There is some confusion about how NexStar works. It uses two alignment stars to determine orientation and then it can separately use up to 4 stars to calibrate for cone error. Because it uses multiple

Hi Jesper, I'm in the same situation. I received my first AP mount, the 1600, in December. I still haven't had a chance to get it out under the stars (we had a stretch of weather that I thought would

Hello, I've made a couple of posts to this group, but not really introduced myself. Mostly, I've been lurking for the last year or so. I've been interested in astronomy all my life. About 15 years ago

I use CCDAP and guide with Maxim connected to the telescope without problems. In the CCDAP help, there is a topic that lists the exact Maxim settings required (The big one is that Maxim must be config

I guess that I wasn't clear in my first reply. I am connecting Maxim and using Telescope to guide with the settings I described. I stopped using the guide relays about a year ago and it works fine. Th

There are a couple of times when it would be nice to have bubble levels on the mount itself. For example, if you put one on the declination housing and scope mounting plate, you could use them to accu

I have been using a carpenter's level on my AP1600GTO. Have I missed something really obvious? _____ From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...] On Behalf Of chris1011@... Sent: T

Hello all, I have an AP1600 and one of the coolest features that surprised me by its usefulness is the through the mount cabling. This is the thing that I never knew I needed, but now would not want t

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I hadn't thought about feeding them through the polar scope opening first. That makes it a straight shot down through the RA axis. I made up a tool to fish th