Wow, that's old! I can't find your records by the email address you use here, so I can't say whether your free upgrades are still valid... but if you use ACP regularly, you're in for some pleasant sur

Joe Schaefer: In this configuration, you are using TheSky as a controller for the AP, and a (thin) adapter to convert TheSky's controls into an ASCOM interface, making TheSky look like an ASCOM driver

Dale Branlund: You need to replace the "stub" telescope API that comes with TheSky with the ASCOM connector telescope API plugin. This is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM&#92

Anton Heidemann: Anton - The ASCOM driver is responsible for providing the detailed control of the telescope. Client programs like MaxIm, PEMPro, Starry Night, FocusMax, ACP, etc. all use the driver f

Back in late June, we announced our new free ACP Planner™. In case you haven't yet looked at Planner, we've just produced a couple of Planner videos. These videos should help you to understand why Pla

--- In ap-gto@..., "oakhillobs" <gregs@o...> wrote: [...] if you are using Maxpoint I'll leave the main info to the folks who are using my software, but... You don't need MaxPoint as ACP h

DC-3 Dreams, SP announces a new FREE tool for planning observing sessions for astro-imaging and science. ACP Planner™ (Patent Pending) gives you a visual way to create a night's MULTI-TARGET observing

It makes me wonder how many of the 940 members read the list more than once every couple of weeks :-) Maybe I should have let the poll run for two YEARS, ha ha. I didn't learn much owing to the small

Dave Tandy: to same This says it all. Thanks VERY much for getting things down to this solid evidence. Many astronomer/customers would just throw up their hands and blame it on whatever, or unintstall

Wow, I never expected to create such a stir. and no, I'm not doing market research for a secret product :-) Dennis P -- Thanks for understanding that I'm trying to learn something specific. Over the l

Yes. No, I want people to say what they use primarily. I'm trying to find out how important computer control is versus hand/key control. EVERYONE uses the handbox/keypad from time to time, and if ther

OK, I reworded the question, and that reset the votes to zero. Now it asks if you PRIMARILY use the handbox or the computer.

--- "brianwilliambrown" <brianwbrown@s...> wrote: Right. It also has a pointing corrector so that hub clients all share the -corrected- telescope. -- Bob

I have placed the new AP driver online at the ASCOM site: http://ascom-standards.org/downloads.html Since the driver in Platform 4.1 is rather problematic, I also broke with my usual standards and sli

Mark -- Thanks for the kind words re: ACP :-) Dennis -- With either ACP or TPOINT, you could save models for each of your OTAs (on your one mount) and switch between them depending on which OTA you're

Randy Nulman: Yes, this issue (time in the mount at startup and shutdown) was the subject of intense work preceding the just-released ASCOM Platform 4.1, and the new driver version contained therein.

Yves Laroche: Thanks to inputs from folks like Jim McMillan, Ray Gralak, and Dave Tandy, I believe I have the info needed to add the AP to the Telescope Specifics section of ACP Help. There has been a

David B. Toth: of Ah so I now understand, thanks. ACP's corrector does not depend on evenly distributed points. As you move around, it maps the parts of the sky you have used. When you move to an unma

Yves Laroche: It depends on the repeatability of the mount for slewing. CA (or backlash compensated) slewing is most useful on low-cost mounts such as Orion, Meade, and Celestron. AP mounts, to their

Ray Gralak: I'm not sure folks registered my last post on this issue (see below). And Ray, please don't take this personally... From my perspective, RESULTS are what count, not innards. Seemingly, few