Welcome, Mike! I'm excited to lean more about what you do and any knowledge you could impart.

Yes. The PA feature alone is worth the ~$15 a year cost, in addition to the general usefulness that SharpCap offers. I don't mind supporting Robin's efforts.

So, the primary cause of a motor stall is an external mechanical force that is countering the direction that the motors are driving the axes in question. Sometimes it's electrical, such as your power

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You can find all releases on ASCOM's github releases page: https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASCOMPlatform/releases A direct link to the 6.4SP1 release is here: https://github.com/ASCOMInitiative/ASC

Not to mention the complete lack of an INDI client library for Windows. The only one that exists is unfinished and has not been touched for almost a decade. There there is also the question of how to

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Yep. I stuffed towel around the area to catch any drips when applying and it’s all going to sit for a day to let it all evaporate. The next night for imaging and make g a new PEC isn’t until Thursday

I spent today cleaning out my 2008 edition Mach1GTO in preparation for re-greasing. A lot of grease on the worm gears was old and really caked into the teeth and towels and rags were't really effectiv

No idea about PinPoint, you would need to consult its documentation. It looks like there is talk about this regarding the "Search Sky Online" setting in PinPoint: https://diffractionlimited.com/help/m

What are you using to plate solve? A blind solve should be able to find where you are pointing in the sky.... if you are using a plate solver that is capable of blind solves.

You can use a utility called GPSTime to update the system clock after booting but before starting APCC. Because your USB GPS device is accessed via COM port, and COM port access is exclusive to 1 appl

I would do it interactively with obstech staff on the phone/voice chat. You move the mount, or they do with the hand controller, and they tell you when things are however close enough to the pier and

Are you sure it was truly clear sky where you had your telescope pointed? Faint high-level clouds can affect the measured HFD/HFR of the star(s) that MaximDL is using. Clouds move, and that could expl

Oh, I have a QHY600 now. I can help test this.

The Polemaster is designed to get you pretty close, but resolution limitations of the small focal length of its C-mount lens will naturally impart a limit to its accuracy. I would say that it alone is

You have a photography setup, so why not just skip over messing with star syncs and just do a plate solve + sync using whichever astrophotography app that you employ? /dale

Polaris does not sit directly on the north celestial pole. It's J2000 declination is 89 16' 05". If it were exactly on the NCP, it would be at 90.0 degrees. Even if it was exactly on the NCP right now

A smaller data set, yes - a 15 megapixel image data set (60/4). But there are other factors here, such as where the binning is happening. If it's happening in ZWO's SDK, and hence its ASCOM driver, th

Binning on CMOS is doesn't work how binning on CCDs does. CMOS binning happens in software, after the sensor is completely read out, because each pixel has its own ADC, and each ADC will have its own

Yo, just a bystander watching an otherwise quite technical thread here, but check the tone before proceeding. You're either investigating a discrepancy and its cause, or you're trying to accuse people

It sounds like you really ought to contact Astromi for support on this then.

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