Hi Brian, Thank you, and I appreciate the description of how it works, that really helps me understand it. Regards, Don

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Hi Don you can still use your serial connection between the mount and your computer REST API is the connection between APCC and ASCOM driver. It's independent of the mount connection

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Hi Folks, I have an 1100GTO with AE. Previously I connected to the CP4 with the 15 ft serial cable that came with the mount because it was said to be the most reliable connection at the time. I recent

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Hi G19 I have the exact same issue that you described but with my QHY600 camera, but I am not familiar w/ Windows system and I am not sure where to find the exact host/user parameter because I get a p

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I found the error after all. A setting in Windows, in my user has been missing. I have set the following via Powershell: or is also possible. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8727293/http-c

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Hi, I would like to control my SBIG STF-8300M via NINA in APCC Pro Point Mapper (v1.9.4.3). In Nina 2.0 (HF1) I get the following error message (Logfile), although the camera is connected and the Astr

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Hi Ray, Thank you for your detailed answer, much appreciated. The weather should be all good tonight for a bigger model :). Is there a simple way to add points to an existing model ? Or, do I need to

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Hi Aygen, > * First, any comments with regards to the overall RMS results ? The RMS numbers look okay. > * Would you import the points into excel and then try to get rid of some outliers to further im

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Morning all, After having fined-tuned my polar alignement through PEMPRO (what a great tool !!!!), I ran yesterday a new model with approximately 150 points. Below is a screenshot of the models (East

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Dan As Bob Denny notes "Sorry but the USNO service has been closed.," the Navy no longer considers A2.0 of value, even though it is still useful for other purposes. If interested, you can see the stat

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Thank you, Sam! I tried the link, but it drops long before the transfer is complete (about .8 GB). But it did motivate me to look for other sources - Found another link to a DropBox at the following l

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Hello Dan, This page (although it’s about UCAC4) has a link to download the USNO A2.0 catalog. It’s towards the bottom of the page. https://codeobsession.com/forum/index.php?topic=8.0 The page is the

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Hoping someone can walk me through downloading USNO A2.0 catalog using FileZilla. I put in ftp://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/usnoa/ for the Host, anonymous for the Username, my email address for th

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Thanks Linwood. I could have worded that better but I did not mean to imply being level is needed for polar alignment. The second part of that was really just to see if the carpenter level was needed

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Bear in mind polar alignment is not really affected by whether or not is level, other than significant errors in level will confuse instructions (like from Nina's TPPA) that says "move 2' down", in th

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Regarding the bubble level on the mount, it's not critical that the mount itself is level. The carpenter's level is used to ensure that the position of each axis is correct before unparking. To do thi

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Hi David, For imaging you will need good polar alignment. Can you use the bubble level on the mount rather than a carpenter level? I do this when setting up and was thinking it might keep you from bri

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If you are going to use APCC, you do not need a keypad (or SkySafari) at all. My portable imaging configuration is an AP1100 using APCC Pro, the AP ASCOM V2 driver and NINA. To set up and initialize t

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Hello Just got APPC Pro connected and to the best of my ability, configured. When I normally do my field setup (visually), I connect my mount, 'fake' a Park 4, enter my location code in the HC, and do

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Well not tonight, the Santa Ana winds are here...

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