Sorry Marj, but I was not getting bounce backs of my posts to my personal eMail account. Checked my SPAM and ISP's Spam folders Nothing there. Checked my Groups.io AP-GTO's "Edit Subscrition" and foun

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Parijat, having read the preceding posts you have very high desires while maintaining a low price point. Dreams of quality and design are good but will be costly. I chose the VanSlyke 'Targetron' main

Ahhh, Thkx Don...joe :) "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize www.cav-sfo.com Chiefland Astronomy Village, Fla.

Does anyone know about ScopeGuard? It appears they may have gone out of business or allowed their Domain Name to lapse and someone in Uzbekistan snapped it up. Thkx...joe :) "May You Go Among The Impe

Anthony, "382.95" is what was filled in, 6mins 22.95sec...joe :) "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize www.cav-sfo.com Chiefland Astronomy Village, Fla.

Thkx Steve, I believe I found it later going through the Wizard. Wish there was some 'referecne' somewhere so people could confirm the settings...joe :)

I'm preparing PemPro and need to enter my 2007 AP1200's "Worm Cycle in Seconds". I cannot find this on the Astro-Physics web site. Can someone help? Thkx...joe :) "May You Go Among The Imperishable St

David, your problem sounds like the tiny grub screw in one of your gears inside the DEC gearbox. Check this article out. HTH...joe :) http://www.astroccd.freeserve.co.uk/AP1200/DecGear.htm "May You Go

Ooops! 1) I should have said Minor Planet Checker (MPC), not SIMBAD, and 2) I should have read all the other posts first. :P "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize www.cav-sfo.com Chieflan

MPC = http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP SIMBAD = http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ VizieR = http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR Aladin = http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml NED = http://

Rick, although not a video check these Links out that I've collected...joe :) http://www.astro-physics.com/tech_support/mounts/1200gto/1200backlash2.pdf http://www.astroccd.freeserve.co.uk/AP1200/DecG

That's okay Chuck, we needed the rain anyway...joe :) "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize www.cav-sfo.com Chiefland Astronomy Village, Fla.

Bob, Thkx for the pointer about the Sidereal Tracking checkbox, I'll look into it. However, I believe the initial intent of this thread is now Moot. Mark's 1TB HD took a nose dive, he had to replace i

Thkx Chris, and to someone else who made their ASCOM 4.1 Download available. This is the rout we're going since we've been unable to resolve the ASCOM 5 issue of the mount stopping tracking upon conne

Thkx Bob, that's what we did, we had to download the latest drivers from the ASCOM site. We always power up everything and Recal the mount before starting the computer and connecting. With ASCOM 5 as

Chris, I've looked for ASCOM 4 but could not find a link to download. Would you by chance know where I can get a copy of ASCOM 4? Thkx...joe :) "May You Go Among The Imperishable Stars" Joe Mize www.c

I've used a Guide Scope with my AP155EDFS for over 15yrs with great success. I usually guide within my imaging camera's FOV. Widely spaced, one step oversized, guide scope Rings are much more flexible

A neighbor has just gotten his new AP1200, ST-2000, MaximDL 4.61, and ASCOM 5.0a up and running. Everything works well once we get past one problem we're experiencing. It doesn't matter the sequence o