That’s a wonderfully detailed and deep view of the Helix! Congratulations, Ignacio. Luca

That’s so cool! Seeing an aurora light show is on my bucket list. Thanks for sharing, Eric! Luca

I use Joel’s bracket for the Powerbox (and other 3D printed goodies) and it works beautifully. Luca

No, the collimation for my FSQ106 was performed in Houston. It didn’t have to go to Japan. Luca

Better frame with more stars (widefield Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula). Luca

This is what mine looks like after its trip to Houston. It still needs a slight tweak of one of the corners and I think I can bring the entire frame to eccentricity <0.45. Tom: Tak USA requested that

Beautiful image, Andrea! Congratulations on the new camera. Luca

Tom, While most likely there are optical aberrations contribute to what you are seeing, there is a simple test that you can run to see how much tilt is affecting your image. Run a set of exposures fro

Tom, I have no idea what that Edgeport box is. My guess it’s a USB to Ethernet converter to go around the distance limitation of the USB protocol but then you would need 2 of them. One thing is for ce

Excellent detail, Rouz! Really fantastic images. Luca

That is a really beautiful image! Crisp and clean. Obviously you have great equipment and favorable seeing but I echo the request if you wouldn’t mind sharing your acquisition and processing workflows

Hi Aaron, I just connect to the mount via USB so I cannot help you with the WiFi problem. However, you do not want to connect power to the CP5 through the powerpole ports on the mount. Connect the AC

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Hi Marcelo, Be careful not to confuse the crossing of the Meridian line with Meridian limits set in APCC. Flip Offset is relative to the Meridian limit, which could be minutes or hours after the cross

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I set Telescope Sync behavior to Sync, which is translated to Recal by APCC. Ray can comment further but I believe this should be ok also when running an APPM model. It just tells the mount where it a

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In the APCC window, uncheck limit to Meridian or the meridian limits you setup are ignored by APCC. You may then have a situation were SGP has no time to execute the flip before the mount stops tracki

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I don’t doubt that you are having meridian flip related sequence failures. However, I will offer the datapoint that I am using SGP 4 v680 with both an AP 1100 and Mach2 without any meridian flip failu

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I had a very similar artifact from the edge of the Optec Sagitta OAG with a FLI ML16200 sensor. Moving the prism up the stalk away from the center of the sensor just a few mm took care of it. Luca

I recently cleaned and lubricated my AP1100 with fixed gearboxes. After some help from George to fine tune gear meshing, last night I was ready to create a new PE correction curve. I'll let the charts

The AP V2 driver fails to start when I select auto-connect in APCC Pro 1.9.0.1. I get two error messages, as shown in the attached screenshots. After clicking the messages away, I can start the driver

As expected, the meridian flip failed at 2:20am because SGP requested a slew to flip the mount just past the crossing of the meridian and APCC left the mount CW up because it was still inside the West