Yep. It's a relatively small model (41 points or so) that usually takes about 20 minutes to run. I give myself about 45 min before astronomical dark to run everything and calibrate, etc. I played arou

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I wish I had known about it too earlier but unfortunately it sold out before I could purchase this upgrade 😕 Fernando

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Hello, I am new to the group. I am finally ready to upgrade from a Losmandy to an AP. I am looking at a used AP1200. I see the above parts on AP's website that indicates it is discontinued. Link to th

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If the PEC correction in the mount is up to date and of good quality, and the model is nice and dense, I dont see why you could not get longer subs unguided. If you are using a refractor or other opti

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Yup. I get that. I just hit this noise situation after adjusting the worms for backlash. I think I figured it out though. The worm adjustment was too tight. When I loosened it up a bit (by turning the

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Ok I had 30 minutes of clear sky. Fine balanced both axis made a big difference. Ra and Dec 8x bolts very tight Ra and Dec 3x Clutch knobs tightened with hex key. Small test model looks promising. For

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HI Roland/All. Thank you for your instructional feedback. It think i will just stick with the manual focus process in favor of preserving the rigidity of the guide scope using the QRG Bracket. I will

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Set the keypad button rate to 1x. Don't set it to any other rate. Roland

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Just a quick follow up. Roland was nice enough to annotate one of my unguided PHD2 graphs to illustrate how he measures Seeing. He explained that he uses this measurement to help determine the initial

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Thanks for the info Ray.

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Brian, Thank you very much for the analysis. I'll definitely set the minimum star HFD to avoid guiding on hot pixels. I was on bin2 since when I first set up this image train several months ago I was

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There is not a way to do it with the CP3. Roland

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Thanks for the links for the docs Brian. I will go thru those to see if anything has changed in recent years. I have used PHD for the last 10yrs (I think) but I am always learning new things. More jus

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For some time, yes. I put it back at some point when winds went away (maybe an hour or two after I started), which should have restored balance, but possibly sent PA farther off at the same time. Targ

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This indicates a severe unbalance in Dec which puts a lot of pressure on the gear teeth and causes high friction. Check your Dec balance by sending the mount to Park1 or 4 or 5 and loosening all 4 clu

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Hi Brad, I can't help much on the Maxim side, but regarding the AP V2 driver, I'll mention two things: I'm sure you are aware, but just in case, the pier side is displayed on the driver's window just

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"It looks like the sides were rolled to produce the shape." Don, yes/no. I had a boiler-maker make it but there was no roller. A press was used to progressively make small bends to form the shape. I m

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Thank you Roland. I'll try it next time. — Marcelo Figueroa

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Most of the time it doesn't. That was unusual. I haven't been able to repeat the low number or the spread between runs. Remeshing the gears hasn't made much difference. I've considered swapping the DE

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Ray, I will recheck the network parameters, in case the router filters out some protocols. Thanks again for the advice. Rodolphe

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