Ah, thanks for the clarification. I've always had the camera add-on for TSX, so when I started using Image Link for the first time for APPM, I wasn't sure if it was something that was a part of the ba

No, there's no PinPoint support in NINA at the moment. I might get the eval copy of PinPoint and put in support for it at some point, but my time is so limited now that such a project would need to ge

I use 3 things: * An old white cotton rag, t-shirt, or similar * A roll of regular paper towels or shop paper towels (the blue kind you can get at auto stores) * A box of flat toothpicks Given the nat

Yes, that's the one.

No drilling. Just a few light taps on the extractor using a finishing nail hammer to seat the extractor bit tip into the plug's center hole, and some initial moderate downward force on the tap wrench

I recently took over as Observatory Director for my club's observatory and outreach center. With COVID putting a halt on the in-person outreach events that we have done on a monthly basis (and hope to

Yes, there is currently no direct cooperation between NINA and APPM at this moment, but that can come in the future and I've worked with Ray to get a proof of concept of APPM->NINA working. One APPM c

Two rules with USB3: 1. Keep cables runs between powered equipment short. I don't do runs more than 2m. 2. Use quality cables. "Amazon's Choice" cables are a dice roll, so just source cables directly

Both. Their high-flex USB cables are rated for 10,000 flex cycles. They use a TPE jacket instead of the more typical PVC one, so they remain flexible in colder temperatures where vinyl will start to s

> On Apr 10, 2021, at 12:47, Bryan R. <bross138@...> wrote: > > I am a fan of Switchcraft DC jacks. They seem to be of much better quality than run-of-the-mill amazon stuff, bit easier to solder

I'm not sure which app it is that you're using, but it's probably not adjusting its display of time for DST given that it's 1 hour behind your clock display and your location is observing DST. Seems o

You can just measure the output of the psu with a multimeter, then hook the psu up to the mount and measure the voltage again at the output on the dec axis. The difference is your voltage drop.

In reality the minimum possible time for a GPS cold start is 12.5 minutes, but this is under optimal conditions where the receiver has a full view of the sky down to the horizon. Without that full vie

Yep. The hows and whys are covered by the NMEATime author here: https://visualgps.net/NMEATime2/MoreInfo.html#GPS_PERFORMANCE

Ugh. Windows' built-in time client has been a pain to deal with and performed sadly only until recently, and even still it requires some tweaks in order to keep host clock drift reasonably in check. O

There are lots of options out there. I've used this with APCC in the past: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTU9KTF/ It uses the U-blox 7 GNSS receiver internally. With Windows 10, you can plug it directl

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I don't have an Eagle 4, but GPS devices are generally serial devices that spit out NMEA sentences at 4800 bps. COM devices under Windows are exclusive devices - generally only 1 app at a time can acc

C:\ProgramData\Astro-Physics\APCC or just the entirety of C:\ProgramData\Astro-Physics\ if you want both APCC and A-P ASCOM driver settings to be on the other PC.

I have no idea what "Auto DST" in SkyTools means. Generally a planetarium app should make issues surrounding time transparent to the user and not have to present these time conversion options that can

Definitely prefer APPM over TPoint. I believe that TPoint for non-SB mounts is just a pointing model, where APPM for A-P mounts provides pointing /and/ tracking models. If you're using TSX as a planet