By the way I’ve added a few more days’ subs to the prior animation. I’ve attached the most recent one below.

Thank you Ben, and yes that time is Eastern, EDT. I have never ever before tried to do simple “photometry” measurement but I tried making measurements of the subs using PI Dynamic PSF and the simple m

Just happened to get lucky in imaging M101 just days prior to the supernova event. Imaged with my AP 305RHA and a QSI683 CCD camera through LRGB filters. Here's a GIF animation of the galaxy a few day

FYI, the source of the problem with Orbitals and APCC has been tentatively resolved. The tracking rate should now agree and be corrected but you will need to upgrade to the latest Orbitals plug in the

I contacted the author last evening and he added a feature a few hours later that we discussed to offset the object of interest easily in the frame and keep the tracking. Jim

Aha! Thank you. I will try that at the next opportunity. Maybe something to add to documentation? Thanks again, Jim

Actually Orbitals should do the same updating as per its author George Helios. It plate solves during frame capture and corrects centering right after the exposure. It seems that the corrections may s

I guess what I meant was that the way I used it, I got no way near the results I got using Horizons through APCC. APCC gave me a pinpoint nucleus with no guiding enabled for 3 minutes, but no way with

Hi Brian, Both the comet and stars are streaked equally. Hi

Trying to use Horizons to track Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF. It works great but I am having issues after I try to offset the nucleus from the image center. After I press the “Offset…” button and start trackin

Has anyone on this list successfully used the NINA Orbitals plugin to accurately track C/2022 E3 ZTF? I'm getting very poor results with Orbitals, how ER, when using Horizons through APCC all works as

Thank you, that makes sense. Sorry that I had missed that YT video. Jim On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 01:28:30 AM EST, Brian Valente <bvalente@...> wrote: Hi Jim This relates to the new featur

I believe I have noticed that in the latest version of APCC, when I park the mount at the end of a session, the Park radio button remains highlighted, i.e. not grayed out, as it did before. Is this de

Here's another animation of almost 5 hours showing Jupiter on the evening of 10/29-10/30 from my observatory on the north shore of Long Island in Huntington/Centerport, NY. The seeing that evening was

Thought it may be of interest to some in the group to post two animations of Jupiter's rotation I just assembled from this past late Friday and Saturday evenings, October, 14-15, and 15-16. The UTC ti

Thank you Roland. Mike Hanson responded similarly and I repositioned it to get the blue light on constantly. Hopefully that resolves it. I really never saw a red or yellow light come on prior to repos

Thank you for your response Mike. I repositioned the sensor just slightly while loosening with a 1/16 hex wrench. The Dec encoder light is a steady blue color just like on the RA axis. I have cycled p

I own an AP1100GTOAE and just recently I’ve been getting repeated errors on startup that APCC fails to connect to the Dec encoder. If I tap on the small black Dec encoder housing with the small led, i

Hi group, Just recently took an image of M1, the Crab Nebula, from my backyard observatory in Huntington, NY, on Long Island. Image was taken with an AP 130mm f/6 refractor, Mach1GTO and the QHY 268C

Hi John, Here’s a photo of the setup. Just need to reach focus with one of the long AP extensions and the camera fully inserted into the 1.25 in eyepiece holder. Please show us your results. Jim Also,