Great idea, Tony. We should also warn AP keypad-owners that the actual “sliding hook” on the keypad is “extremely” thin, fragile, and brittle, so it can easily snap while trying to hang the keypad, un

Unfortunately, Showing Elon Musk the twinkle of stars, he would only see shimmering bright dollar signs. Joe

Fernando, Just to be clear – pun intended – you are saying ... You wouldn’t do any deep sky VIEWING from your downtown area? How about deep sky imaging using decent Narrow Band filters? I do that, but

Hi, I wonder if that “power event” was actually a daily scheduled one, for your UPS “Testing Itself”. It would be very brief, possibly just dipping its backup battery to make sure it can revive an out

Hi Rolando, With the recent discussions about eliminating excessive dew formation on the (CP3 to CP5) controllers, and everything else under a scope tarp, I thought I would (finally) ask THE EXPERT, m

Hi Shailesh, After my AP-1200, with its traditionally RA axis-mounted CP4 (at the time), shorted out – twice – from heavy dew on some sessions, rolling off the OTA every time it passes across the Prim

Hi, Here’s another suggestion, which hasn’t been suggested, quite the same way, on getting the adapter loose enough to “torque” off the bar. Heating the mated combination or freezing the combination d

Hi Linwood, I keep wondering why you haven’t yet printed the actual HELP file. It is very well written and a pleasant read. You can do that with most help files, as I have done. Prints as a PDF docume

Hi, If used around an observatory, I think it should be mounted closer to the ground, or at most half way up, and as far away as possible from where you might be standing, or your work table & compute

Sorry, for MY confusion, Ray. A bit muddle-headed this morning. Of course APCC is “PC software”. The difference in CP3 versus CP4 firmware, in this regard, had me briefly woolly-headed. My concern was

Ray, I have been away from the APCC for quite a while. Please remind me - Does the APCC firmware itself, check whether it is communicating with a CP3, CP4, or CP5 – and handles the “software mode” Lim

John, Hope you do have a read through. Forgot to mention that the heater doesn’t usually cycle itself on, in the daytime, since the sun warms up the tarp’s air pocket enough by itself, to keep any moi

Hi John, No need to “WASTE ... power and computer lifetime” keeping your computers and heater running, as well as having to keep track of “humidity readings” yourself. Have a look in this group’s AP-G

Hi Chris, You should at least run Win-10-> Admin Tools-> Windows Memory Diagnostic, and not just the default quick 2 minute one, but specify several more passes, run all day if necessary, according to

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Thanks Greg, That second link for the HOODMAN Loupe is what I had been considering for some years. However, reaching for any Keypad button, while being that close with the eyes locked onto the hooded

Thanks Chris, Definitely will give that a try. I considered devising something like a “periscope or oscilloscope viewing eye shield”, to peer right at the display. A cloth hood over my head, like a bo

Mike, I would add ... besides software, will there be a Kit, or at least instructions, to Upgrade (or retro-fit) that terribly dim Keypad display module with a more readable OLED one, so we can actual

Shailesh, What is your scope’s Latitude? As you get closer to the equator, attaching the scope to the dovetail plate with its opened rings, begins to get dicey. It only becomes ideal at higher than LA

Hi Karen, Now I see ... in the KIT, those are actually all, in fact, desert “Dust Caps”, but I like to use them to keep any contaminants, wet or dry, off the pins. Makes sense now. I mistook the rubbe

Hi Mike, If anyone still has the original CP4 released WHITE case – consider drilling the two bottom corner holes, as Tony (a.k.a. Harley-Davidson) shows in his CP4 video. My original, like yours, i.e