indeed it should be a good test! as I mentioned before (and i just saw a few more confirmations of this) it looks like a 10-15% improvement in guiding accuracy (i'm talking PHD2 multi-star specificall

Hi Lee afaik pressure doesn't really make much of a difference for model accuracy. Temperature is the real variable there Brian

Shailesh you can do a simple comparison 1. Take a 5 minute sub (or whatever longer exposure) with encoders on. 2. Next disable the encoders in APCC 3. Take another sub of the same length 4. Compare tw

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Nice job Geoff! the jet with the right-angled bend always threw me, i always think it is some sort of reflection Brian

Hi Andrea In my experience APPM does not work that way at all, but it's much easier. You define a set of points in the sky, run the model, sit back and it finishes. You only get one shot at the model

#APCC

I don't know if it's better/same, but USB is definitely easier for us

It sounds like a good idea... but you will get a handful of fails around the bright moon if you are going to go through the effort of building a large model to keep for a while, my experience suggests

FYI we have a 400 point model and have been using it for months <khursh@...> wrote:

we received a number of motor stall events on our AP1600 Our sequence aborted when it wasn't able to slew. We parked the mount, restarted things, and they worked okay for the rest of the night is ther

Although I wouldn't recommend it, our first setup polar alignment was several *hundred* arcmin off and APCC was still able to correct it reasonably well.

#Mach2GTO #APCC

>>> Right now the scope is in park 5. I moved it there using the APCC telescope control buttons. When I power up tonight, I am unsure what to do based on your explanation. Can you give it to me anothe

Hi Mike generally you want the intersection of celestial equator and meridian. you want to avoid low altitude and near the poles exposure time doesn't matter as much - a few seconds is fine regarding

1.0x is the best guidespeed for AP mounts not sure where 0.5x recommendation came from

Hi Ray >>>. I think this is with the declination-arc tracking rate option in APCC, correct? yes that's correct. As you know, this additional option is as simple as turning on a checkbox.

Hi Khushrow if endorse are on you will see it on the AE Tab like this: to see if the model is active, click on pointing model and look on the options to make sure they are enabled

Hi everyone, I wanted to share our latest results from using the our AP1600 with absolute encoders, doing unguided with APCC/APPM model This is from last night's run, we used 900second (15 minute) ung

>>> Is there a compelling reason why I should upgrade? I am in the "if it isn't broken, then don't fix it" camp. no, not in my opinion

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Dale Just to clarify, you *did* switch to their stepper motor driver from the Optec? I have the UPBv2 but i haven't used that part of it. i haven't even considered switching to that because - like you

Alex if you are doing a telescope-top plate with all your accessories, you might consider something like a pegsus astro Ultimate powerbox, which includes port-managed USB, power outputs, etc. very han

>>>I'm also using SGP 3.1, everything works fine so far and I don't want to experiment. same here. afaik 4.0 doesn't have any new features that are of interest (not sure why it's labeled 4.0) but i'll