Congratulations Arvind. You’re going to love your Mach2; I know I love mine. It is such a joy to use. I have a PrimaLuceLab Eagle on top to run all my gear. The power cable goes up through the mount t

Nice image Stuart.

You think you have problems with your seeing, you really need to come to Calgary and experience problems with seeing; you'll never complain about your seeing again. Both images are great. As far as th

Dean, Fantastic images! I totally agree with your assessment of the Mach2. It just disappears and does a perfect job. Now if I could only get my 645 reducer dialled in like yours, then everything woul

Hi Steve, I’ve had a 32” x 8-5/8” SkyShed pier for some 7 years or so. It’s great. My Mach2 sits comfortably and solidly on the pier. I originally had a SB MYT on it, then a SB MX+, sometimes a Vixen

Created a perfect Dec Arc model tonight; 100% success, no failures. But, after the model was created in the NINA sequence, the sequence went on to slew and centre (all good), autofocus (all good), the

I will Brian. ~Terry

Strange. Oh well, I've updated APPC and the ASCOM driver to the latest and greatest, and there is even an update to NINA tonight, so everything is up to date. The skies are crappy tonight, so the next

Is that the latest version? In the driver it says v5.60.05.

I just had a look at APPM, which I haven't touched since last night and the plate solve settings are 0.75 arc-sec/pixel.

Yikes! No, that's not right; it's more like 0.75 arc-sec/pixel ~Terry

Thank you Ray. I haven't updated because I updated when the updates were first released (back in January I think), but it was causing some issues and I went back to the older versions. I never had any

Well, not a total failure, but ⅔ of the points failed. Last night I tried to create a Dec Arc model with my TEC 140 on my Mach2; a full arc of M51. I'm at a loss as to why so many failures. I can load

I agree, the ZWO approach is not good. I have never used the Gerd Neumann, but I have used the Baader and whilst the Baader is far superior to the ZWO approach anc very solid, it is still a 3 point sy

Well, as Richard Write says, Guiding must die. With my Mach2 that was an easy thing to accomplish. Take the OAG out and you have lots of space. ~Terry

The frustration of trying the 3 push-pull systems led me to getting an ASG Astronomy Photo Cage. It clamps to the camera and only moves the camera. Below is a description of the gizmo from the ASG web

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 06:29 PM, Roland Christen wrote: With only 3 push-pull it's extremely difficult is not impossible by mere humans of normal intelligence. Totally agree.

+3 for SkyShed, and I’ll add that Wayne Parker, the owner is incredible to work with. ~Terry

Hi Brian, The Home position works fine. In my initial post I said after reconnecting to the mount I parked the mount, which I did. But before parking the mount I gave it the command to go Home in APPC

One minute: Home Position