I have no idea what "Auto DST" in SkyTools means. Generally a planetarium app should make issues surrounding time transparent to the user and not have to present these time conversion options that can

Definitely prefer APPM over TPoint. I believe that TPoint for non-SB mounts is just a pointing model, where APPM for A-P mounts provides pointing /and/ tracking models. If you're using TSX as a planet

As the document implies, confusion can be lessened by just running all the things in UTC, especially if the person is unaccustomed to operating in multiple time zones. By having your PC and keypad dis

So here's the deal: the mount CP deals only in UTC. All calculations involving positions of objects in the sky are done UTC. For the purposes of a mount's internal operations, UTC is the only thing th

Negative. The CP5 is (currently) unique to the Mach2 because the CP5's motor driving circuitry is for running the unique-to-the-Mach2 brushless servo motors. The CP1/2/3/4 has circuitry for driving th

Internally, mounts operate on UTC time only and don't care about/know about silly constructs such as DST and time zones. I would pull the session's logs from whatever imaging or sequencing program you

GTOCP3 here, so USB direct from my NUC-like miniPC to a 14 year old Prolific-based USB to serial adaptor that plugs into the CP3. Somehow, this old adaptor has managed to survive winters and summers o

Heavy dew for one person is light dew for another, so some context of what that means might help. Have you ran into this problem or are wondering just in case? I’ve never worried about my CP3. The hea

It was original from 2008, so that factory grease was at least 12 years old. The worm grease was alright but the worm and spur gear grease was noticeably solidified and obviously in need of refreshing

I'm not sure what the big deal is, John. Hardcopy instructions are included with the $25 grease kit that you can order over the phone from Astro-Physics. The paper instructions are certainly adequate

I wouldn't make this sort of simplistic assumption. Short of any design differences, thinking that tolerances are somehow purposefully lesser or more when comparing any two mount models is an odd thin

Oh gosh, the through-mount cabling is such a great thing. I use it on my Mach1 and can imagine working without it. The Mach2 still has its version of that, but of course its requirements mean less fle

I just went full hog on the 1100 with the AEL variant. Here's one thing that Paige explained to me. You can reserve an AE or AEL model now and, if you need to, downgrade the order to a regular version

Yeah, I bought an RST-135 for mobile imaging on weekend trips and plane ride. I put a CFF 92mm f/6 frac on the top of it and it works exceedingly well, with the main parts of the setup split between a

I have the ASI1600 with the Panasonic chip, 294 color, and IMX455-based QHY600 which is the same sensor as the ASI6200. The Panasonic chip that's in the ASI1600 and other cameras has been a fantastic

One hopes that The George on the Shelf reports back in our favor, though.

An ASCOM Switch driver would be a better solution here, as you can then control it from any ASCOM client application that can grok ASCOM Switch drivers.

To see if SGP has something similar as Voyager's watchdog, you can just start a quick session with SGP and click tracking off at any point in the A-P ASCOM driver or APCC window and observe if trackin

There's a way to get Chrome to display certain sites in High Contrast mode, although it's not straight-forward to enable. This might help you with colors, which I don't think are under a mailing list

This same situation was answered here earlier this week. You must start TheSkyX as Administrator once so that it can register its ActiveX components with Windows, then it will work running as non-Admi

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