I think Bob's point is more along the lines of don't trust *only* software to keep the unwanted from happening. If you're going to automate roof closures, make sure that your roof control system has t

Just looking through your posts, my first inclination is to check the tracking rate that the AP ASCOM driver is reporting while this condition is happening and verify that it's in sidereal; not lunar,

Are you running SGPro and NINA under different permissions realms? What I mean by this is, are you perhaps running one as Administrator and the other not?

Have you checked to make sure that APCC is indeed set to park at your desired park position instead of "Current Position", which is in fact a valid park location? Yes, there are no notions of park pos

Oh, and the usual insurance games such as loss coverage not applying because of specific causes like flooding (either natural or from things like a backed-up sewer/septic) and such will be part of the

You can declare your astronomy gear on a rider that will usually cover loss and theft. However it won’t protect the gear if you’re sued and “they” come for your assets, which is what “Umbrella insuran

Ah ok. I've fixed this by taking the same kind of flat-bladed screwdriver and bending the leaf up through the front of the buggy connector, then click in the connector. Sometimes you get a random one

The contact wasn't pushed in all the way and the "hook" of the contact wasn't slid up and over the end of the metal leaf that's part of the connector housing. A firm push in from the rear using a smal

Ah yes, good. EXT mode on the keypad means that you are likely initializing the mount from your PC, and I presume it's good on its clock. You're welcome! I'm really happy to hear when people find it u

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Could this be a date/time issue on the mount? Do you have a keypad attached to the mount, and is it in EXT mode or not? Could its time be off?

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PA and drift error might not matter much when imaging the gas giants or mars, when the planet very likely doesn't fill the sensor's entire FOV and there's a lot of room for the target to float around

Ray would likely have deeper knowledge of what might (not) be happening here. The only remaining thing I can think of is that anti-virus is pulling shenanigans. Are you running anything other than the

The kind of error you're getting makes me wonder. Uninstall APCC, then try installing again (the beta) but this time, right click the installer .exe file and "Run as administrator"

Try the current beta installer instead? There are a bunch of improvements in this area. https://www.apastrosoftware.com/apcc_download/APCC_Pro_BETA_Setup_1.9.2.5.exe

I never did get the CFF flattener because it wasn't available when I received the CFF92, and I wanted to try to find a reducer+flattener system that had the same (or very close to the same) BFL so the

It’s something I would be interested in, and I don’t even have a Stowaway. I have a CFF 92 f/6 refractor and the M63 APM-Riccardi reducer that have been using on it is baaaaarely passable, with some l

You'll need to be less vague about what you mean by "unable the plate solve it in TSX". Are you getting an error message? If so, what does the message say? Etc, etc. One common reason why plate solvin

Ah yes, I forgot about "Prevent Errant RECALs" (I have that turned off in my setups because of all the testing I do with NINA, so the last time that has gotten in the way of things has faded from my m

What I is happening is that you have a saved site in APCC and NINA has its own lat/long (and now elevation) settings under Options > General > Astrometry. The prompt you see is because the two differ

To add, if the root cause for loss of orientation is still a mystery, another common cause is that the clock on your imaging computer has drifted substantially enough. This is evident if the loss of o