Oops, my bad! I missed the remote part. Mike's suggestion will work just fine then. The intermediate park is needed to reset the internal limits to allow the mount to get into the position you desire

Hi Tarun, Since you will be establishing pointing and orientation anyway when you unpark from Park 3, you could also simply: Loosen the clutches and move the scope to the Park 3 position. Unpark from

That's what we like: Plug and Play. Set it up and forget about it, because it just works.

I agree with Mike H. You are probably in a west limit. Solving this is simple. You need a full initialization and a full sync on an AP pre-defined park position. Contact me off-group and I can help a

I have two points to bring up: 1. In general, I have been able to mitigate the difference in E and W model quality by eliminating the actual mechanical orthogonality issue. Fixing orthogonality is a b

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Hey there, Astronuts! It's that time of year again, but if you have v.5.x of the keypad, you're in luck! This is a link to the V5 manual: The instructions are on page 31. Here is the entire instructio

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This looks like a great thread for some clarification and clean-up of our language. Consistent language is vital to avoiding confusion. The theory behind the Dec-arc approach is that it concentrates t

IMPORTANT!! I forgot to add that if / when you do this, you will lose all your setttings. Don't delete the old settings files. Simply rename them. HKH

Hi John, Delete the following files along with your uninstall to get rid of all your settings as well. This should clear up the program's attempts to use the virtual ports. If you have more issues, gi

I have added this to our Friday APCC meeting agenda. -273°C = 0°K = Absolute zero. My guess is that GPS lives in the Kelvin realm and that all user interfaces convert to Fahrenheit or Celsius. However

Linwood, that is truly a wonderful summation. May I steal some of your text? Mag. 7 or Better Skies! Howard Hedlund Astro-Physics, Inc. AP Phone: 815-282-1513 Direct Mobile Phone: 815-315-7015 Video T

Hi Gang. Good thread here with good questions and comments for those of us working with Ray on development. Let me clarify a few things: ASCOM Standards is its own organization with its own rules and

The first thing I normally suggest to customers is to double-check their .Net to make sure it is up to date. Look in: Control Panel → Programs and features → Turn Windows Features on or off. Make sure

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Hi Dan, You have some great replies above. Guiding glitches can drive a person crazy. (...short trip for some of us!) One of the first things to try to determine is whether the glitch is a random act

Thanks for being brave, Mike! That's good to hear.

Hi Chris, I'm sorry I missed this. I think you have probably drawn a false conclusion. A slew from APCC is identical to a slew from any other program. Does the stall occur immediately when you command

What you are asking is a lot for a non-encoder mount, especially one with an older GTOCP3. As I'm sure you are well aware, everything is more difficult at such a long focal length. Polar alignment err

Wow! At 5000 mm focal length, you must just about be able to see the sunspots move as the sun rotates! (OK, not sure about that, but that's still a lot of focal length. I'm glad it's folded.

We have posted the next version of our USBserial Utilities (v. 08) for Astro-Physics GTO Mounts on the website. https://www.astro-physics.com/software-updates/ This java-based tool has several worthwh

Balance is often misunderstood, and its sneaky interactions with worm-gear backlash can drive a person nuts (... short trip for some of us!) Here's some guidance: ENCODER MOUNTS (Mach2GTO and 1100 & 1