OK first, thanks to George at AP "crisis averted." I *really* appreciate the help and support from AP to help keep my astro-trip on track (clouds aside, of course). During the troubleshooting process

Phillip,thanks for the suggestions. Please note that I have been operating in exactly this way (keypad plus computer) for 10 years with no problems so something has changed. I also checked and set the

"All of a sudden" my GTO900 has problems slewing to objects in the west over the last couple nights. Everything seems fine with stuff in the East. I'm running keypad 4.12 and thought maybe that's rela

For what it's worth: I had some power issues on my last dark sky trip. Quite a panic. It turns out my AP900 GTO power cord failed I had shelled out for a spare cable, which I broke out and confirmed i

Yes, Robin got a lot of my business right before this trip. I did a lot of research on guide and small imaging scope pointing options. Finally I decided to try the Casady TGAD over a couple other opti

Mark, Hmm, it's working for me. The direct link to the equipment page is here: http://www.dl-digital.com/MISC/Equipment.htm if you'd care to try again... -Dick Locke

All, I've finished processing my images from my last astronomy trip to the fabulous Davis Mountains of West Texas, USA. On this trip I loaded up 3 scopes on my AP 900 using a Casady triad bar, and I'm

I had a great trip to west Texas last October, with an unprecedented string of 7 clear nights. This was the second major outing with my AP 900GTO, and as expected it performed very well (when I didn't

That's good... Except for one site is essentially the yard in front of a cabin and digging up their lawn may not be appreciated ;-). -Dick the pier stepping the pier. the NEW (http://www.aol.com/?opti

Thanks, I do that too, but a couple of the places I set up at are on grass and very uneven. -Dick Locke larger

Has anyone found a commercial product that can be used or easily adapted to help level an AP pier on an uneven surface? I'm specifically referring to the AP portable pier, as used with a 900GTO in thi

Howard and Rolando, Thanks very much for the quick replies. Fortunately it's the simplest of problems, somehow tracking was set to LUN. Duh! I should have thought of that! I guess it's easy to bump th

Hello, I'm seeking advice for what seems to be a fairly large RA tracking rate error with my AP 900GTO. I'm using an STV, and during drift alignment using the classic star in east & star south, I'm se

I'm using the blueconsole with success on my AP900: ...I was able to get a bluetooth connection going between my laptop and the mount. See http://www.dl-digital.com/astrophoto/P2-Astro/AP-900-GTO.htm

Curious as to whether anyone can off possible explanations for some strange behavior I saw using the 900GTO guiding my TOA 130 with my STV/ST80 on my first "field trip" with the mount. The STV is moun

I spent some time last weekend trying to adjust my polar alignment scope (version 4, "PASILL4") so that the reticle is centered, as described in the instructions. After aligning on Polaris, etc, I dri

This weekend I confirmed the Blueconsole adapter needs the 9v battery to work with the AP mount. I had some interesting guiding with the 900GTO on it's first field trip and will post more details as t

I didn't try without the battery yet, but I will this weekend. I doubt it will work, but I'll let you know... -Dick Locke

Dennis, Thanks. Your description of when synch should be used is consistent with the instructions. What I was specifically doing was using "The Sky 6" synch command on the telescope tab of the object

The skies have not cooperated much since my 900GTO arrived, but it's been out a couple of times. Yesterday I was able to get a bluetooth connection going between my laptop and the mount. See http://ww