Hi Horia, Please contact me at the AP office number: 815.282.1513 or via email at howard at astro-physics dot com. That is not the way things ship from our factory. Were the packages damaged? Was Cust

Wow!

Those are both very nice! They are amazing with 130 mm of aperture.

Hi linda, What is your startup procedure - step by step?

Hi Sam and Linda, George and I will get together with Ray and see if we can clarify all of this. (Ray, please don’t make any changes until we talk.) For now, here are some additional comments: Unparki

We appreciate people who read our manuals! Thank you! HH

Nice Iris! I'm glad you had a good night of imaging. HH

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Dave's theory was a good theory, but I'm afraid it wasn't correct. Here was my response to him sent well after his post, so I repeat: At the time it was a god theory. The short-term quick-fix is to si

#Absolute_Encoders #Mach2GTO #APCC

Just a shout-out to Ray Gralak, Dale Ghent and Marj Christen for the intense work that has gone into this project over the last months. Dale and Ray have been hammering away at the NINA integration, w

Sorry, Bruce. I'm working on this. I should have let you know that I had the logs downloaded and was working on it.

#APCC

I have been in contact with the the software developer assigned to work with us at Simulation Curriculum. She has responded and is looking into the Mac OS issue. This is not an issue with MacOS, nor a

Using the supplied serial cable with a USB to serial converter, even the FTDI unit that we sell, will still be limited in its reliability to that of USB. Chris is referring to a native serial port on

Hi Alex, For starters, I would hook up a USB cable as your backup COM port in APCC. That's just a good idea regardless. Ethernet connections through a network are usually our preferred method for comm

Hi Sebastien, First off, remember that the declination axis does not track unless a model is present, and then it would only be extremely slow. Dec spikes pretty much have to come from software that i

#Guiding

Hi Alex, Do you have a "#" sign, "$" sign or a ":" in your main password? The pound sign absolutely cannot work because it is the terminator for all AP commands. In other words, if your password is: 1

#WiFi

Hi Andrew and all of you other fine Gentlemen, Please bear a few things in mind about a potential high performance mini-mount: We can't just scale down a Mach 2 (or Mach1, even) to design this mount.

George runs a Shuttle fanless in his observatory. AP has one in our observatory, and there is another one in our office. All 3 have been absolutely flawless. I haven't looked at the newer versions. Th

Hi Steve, Dave asked me to write the response. I have attached a simple drawing in a PDF that he provided. The good news is that the 6 perimeter holes are NOT through-holes. The only 2 holes of possib

Hi Steve, I'm going to refer this to our mount assembly wizard at the shop. Look for a response from Dave. Howard

Hi Brad, I can't help much on the Maxim side, but regarding the AP V2 driver, I'll mention two things: I'm sure you are aware, but just in case, the pier side is displayed on the driver's window just

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