with all these great ideas and enthusiasm for transporting the counterweight shaft, now i kind of feel like a sucker for just leaving mine on a pier and not moving it! :)

bah - you are such a tease!

Wonderful image Tom do you have a link to full resolution? i'm guessing that is chock full of details Brian

super great to see everyone pulling together, and kudos to you Christopher for making it happen for the University

It's a classical hubble palette - a really wonderful image Eric

Hi Tom what are you guiding with, and do you have guidelogs to share?

a really stunning image. Great clarity, detail, and color Brian

Hi Peter It looks to me like maybe your mount was slipping in alt? there appeared to be substantial polar misalignment in your setup looking at your "before runs" that were working, you can see most o

Hi Peter you might be better off asking this question in the PHD user forums, but in either case you would need to upload your guidelogs to see what was going on user group: https://groups.google.com/

Ron i appreciate your enthusiasm, but alpha software that evolves every week is not what works for me I have a very remote obs and it needs to be 100% reliable (or as close to it as i can). I don't re

>>> (with allowances for apps that do things such as set your printer on fire. That would clearly be an objectively negative assessment). this is exactly why i have avoided adding a printer to my tele

>>> To still be using SGP over NINA only means you've never given NINA a shot. i appreciated your comments until this part - you're wrong on this. I've tried NINA and used it for a while and i don't c

>>>With the HORDES of people moving from SGP to NINA... it would be worthy of a APPM update? That's a bit hyperbolic? :) NINA Is free (for now?) so it of course is going to attract more people SGP has

Hi Patrick again weighing in without direct experience (although I've done this with other non-ap mounts) when you re-create the curve from your existing data, you configjre PEMPro for the new CP4 the

Hi Patrick i don't have direct experience with what you're describing, but that description makes sense you don't need to reacquire data, you just need to load the data you already gathered, create an

>>>....when we had live bands at my bar. Howard, you buried the lead here, interesting to know this about you :)

>>>Just curious, how long does it take to polar align using SharpCap Pro with the PoleMaster camera versus the PoleMaster camera using its native software? Longer than polemaster software, shorter tha

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FYI you can use sharpcap with the polemaster camera, it's kind of a best of both worlds Sharpcap only works with a fov of 1-2.5 degrees, so 2800mm will probably never work reliably

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When I ran into a similar issue on our ap1600 i found my location and date/time data was incorrect.

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one small thing >>>I am running a piece of software on my computer called Dimension4 i have been told not to use this piece of software, as the small continuous time adjustments may cause issues

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