“so please let's not throw cucumbers into the gefilte fish” That’s a new one and I’m Jewish. Robert

I use Nebulosity on my Mac. It works hand-in-hand with PhD for guiding as they are both written by the same person. You can definitely do everything you need to do on your Mac. Nebulosity also has pre

This is amazing. I suppose one option would be to go ahead and guide with the allowance of a very large error before correction. This way the guiding program could allow a dither without really guidin

I keep marks on my mount for the position of Park 3. After I polar align I make sure the mount is at the Park 3 position with my marks then I turn on the mount, resume from Park 3 and then slew to a s

This is gorgeous. I have attempted this enough to know how difficult it is to get it right and I sure have not gotten there. Robert

I think the reason you're confused is that you have to understand how simple the AP mounts are to use. In fact they are so simple to use that I over thought it and had trouble changing from a Celestro

This happens to me also. The problem is the split pin connector inside the box. I have to periodically spread the pins apart to fix this and have lost power at inconvenient times because of it also. T

Absolutely beautiful curtains above the Horsehead. Really nice. I have never seen this perspective; it is wonderful. Robert

I find that NGC 253 is one of the hardest to get the color right. It is a very complex object. I really liked your luminance only as it shows the complexity of 253 but the color doesn't get in the way

This is an issue I have never thought about. Very interesting. The local time we use is only for convenience to convert to universal time. It is interesting that the only accurate civil time on earth

Thanks. I will try it. I have version 3 of nebulosity but will go to 4 for this. I am now working on changing to The SkyX for imaging on my Mac.

Ray, I haven't checked in a while but have you included more capture software for pempro? I don't use maxim or Astroart. Have you included nebulosity? I never use your software because of this issue.

I know it just says Park 1 in all the emails but I just want to make sure. I only use Park 3. So if I only use Park 3there is no problem, correct? Robert

If you return the mount to the exact same position that you left it in it will not change coordinates. I placed markers at the exact point of the park position on both axes of my 900 mount. I can move

Thanks Don. i like your moon shot. Robert

Thanks Jim. Robert

I reprocessed my earlier version of the Moon in Ha taken with my AP 155. I also added the Apollo landing sites. Each Apollo map I saw was different and all were in low resolution so I am not sure if t

You really should think about an inexpensive guide scope and guide camera, even for the short focal length scope. Imaging unguided will not get you a very long exposure even with the short focal lengt

I use a shelter made of tarps and electrical conduit. It is a pain to set up but blocks all wind. The Okie-Tex star party has gusts of up to 50 miles an hour. I have a friend who sells kits for this.

Thanks Christopher.