On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:42 AM, Dale Ghent wrote: Park and Home might appear to be the same concept, or at least very similar ones, but they have some important differences. The concept of Parking i

Very sad news, Peter was always friendly and helpful. I believe he was on the TEC forum as well, which is where I first interacted with him. He will be missed by many. Terri

If you’re portable Shailesh, it’s a good deal. I’m at the winter star party with a Mach2 and TEC140 and taking unguided 15 min exposures in NB at 1000mm. My models are around 60 points and consistent

#APCC

I have the 1100 AEL and you can install and use the pole master by unplugging the encoder for the DEC motor box while the camera is attached. The mount doesn’t need powering up to use the Polemaster.

Great capture.. I'm hoping for a hole in the clouds just to get a glimpse of it before it goes away. There's not much happiness in Vermont for Astronomers this time of year!

So I thought I'd close this out with some success. Through observation I identified that the altitude and azimuth weren't being reported correctly in APPM and/or the CP4 when doing the modeling runs.

Beautiful image Dean…. Orion is like an old friend who comes to visit every late fall and winter.. Terri

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 03:56 PM, Roland Christen wrote: Make sure that your 1 second image of a medium bright star is perfectly round and not oval. This will rule out any optical issues in the scope

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:34 PM, Roland Christen wrote: Note: I have modeled our various mounts with nominal amounts of polar misalignment up to 1/2 degree off. In all cases I have found that the APC

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:10 AM, ap@... wrote: I had a different experience. Though there is a small twist to it. So far I have found that using Google Maps oriented true north to get

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:34 PM, Roland Christen wrote: hello Terri, I think I know what may be wrong with your RAPAS alignment procedure on your 1100 mount. The 1100 has 3 screw holes in the back pl

Thanks Chris and Todd and Dean for the helpful feedback and suggestions on polar alignment. I think ultimately I will use some electronic polar alignment as it’s very fast and repeatable (my experienc

Hi Dean, I am aware of it and have been looking into it. I think it’s another subscription piece of software which I’m not crazy about. Would it work well with something like a 60Mp camera given the s

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:14 PM, Roland Christen wrote: Quite significant. Rolando Roland, I think I still have this much error tonight, and I spent more time with the RAPAS aligning it as best as my

Hi Roland, One of the big things I've done is just moved the tripod to the patio, which is very solid footing in case I was getting some settling where I was. Please don't spend too much time on this

Hi Roland, I'm using an Eagle tripod. I have an ATS portable pier being built, but it's late so I purchased adapter parts to use the Eagle tripod while the ATS is finishing. The weight of the system i

Brian, here is a link to the model points file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RNVVtSi0codDK1TkJWk_rbcqVz7TC_n4/view?usp=share_link Terri

Here is the model screen showing the modeling errors. It seems to exclude the failed points automatically. Does this tell you anything about specific issues? Terri

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM, Brian Valente wrote: HI Terri If you can post your model file it would be helpful to take a look at it. Models are typically stored in a directory such as C:\ProgramDa

Roland Christen Jan 9 #91605 You can tell if the model is being applied by looking at the RA and Dec custom rate. If the model is not being applied the stars will trail, but certainly not look ugly. B