Yes, extensively, step-by-step. I'll try to email you off-group. Thank you, Rick

Dear All, AP 1100 mount, APCC Pro We are trying to sort out meridian limits. There seem to be "mount" meridian limits, and "APCC meridian limits". We believe: --Mount limits apply to slews --APCC limi

Geoff, Thank you; I had a look and that box in fact is checked, so it must be the default, since I haven't messed with it. What that seems to mean, however, is that I also have not synched since the t

Rolando, thank you--it sounds like you are saying that there's no problem as long as APCC is launched? However, I don't know whether my "synchs" (e.g. through Sequence Generator Pro, or Cartes du Ciel

Dear All, I am doing counterweight up imaging to extend tracking time; in the hand controller manual, we are told never to "synch" with CW up, but rather to "re-calibrate" to improve pointing accuracy

Thank you all, that's very helpful. I guess it's time for me to break out the tele-extender for galaxies! As far as quantifying the seeing, here's a way in PixInsight: Load an image into the workspace

Rolando et al., Some confusion on my part--I thought it doesn't provide any resolution improvement to image with a pixel scale below the seeing, ~1 arc sec per pixel in my neighborhood (on a good nigh

All, AP 1100 mount: It's often useful to start an imaging run with CW up to avoid an eventual meridian flip. Currently, to do that, I slew to the target with the usual default of landing there with CW

Good grief, these are all being sent and arriving out of order! I sent the below over an hour ago!

Yes, I received and replied to your previous email about the Meridian Delay! That could be what happened. I think I have all the info I need now, and thank you very much. Richard

OK, I see that setting now; there's no way to know whether I'd inadvertently set it but I guess it's possible, and maybe the most plausible explanation. Certainly I will now be aware if this happens a

Rolando, was the below your intended reply? It is what you sent earlier today--useful general comments, esp. regarding Park 3--but otherwise based on my incorrect initial post, where I incorrectly sta

...new set up option" to inform the mount that I was starting from park 4...

Rolandao, I did a good RAPAS polar alignment, including leveling the mount, with the scope in park 4 (using a bubble level on the OTA and the CW shaft to get it pretty close to correct). I used the "N

Bryan, Hand control. I haven't put in any safe zone limits; they are set to the default values of all zeros. In any event, in this case, it should have been a very short slew, and not near any potenti

Dear All, I was imaging Jupiter last week with my AP 1100 mount, then went to Vega and re-synched. All good; counterweight down, minimal pointing error. I then slewed to (nearby) M57 and the mount wen

OMG just use the hand control! Sort that out first, by all means. Rick Spencer Elkton, MD

Thanks Howard. And I just learned a new word! "sexagesawhatsit".

Thanks Christopher--but I am just working with the hand controller at this point. So is there any way to do this using just the HC? Rick

I'm using a Mach1--new to it, but it works well! I would like to enter object RA/dec coordinates into the HC; the format it "wants" appears to be hours:minutes:seconds; my source (Kepple & Sanner) lis