It could potentially be a cable or connector issue. As it gets colder, cables get stiffer which puts more stress on the connectors when things move.

My travel mount is an AP1100 (without encoders) on an Astro-Physics portable field pier. I find it to be a pure pleasure to use for this, even including setup and teardown. My first imaging mount was

Was it this one, by chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVg1M6bURI

I understand that. In this case, though, the user is not asking for help. He’s reached his own conclusion (which is contrary to your guidance for counterweight placement) and posted it. I don’t happen

There are a couple of Mach2 threads on Cloudy Nights. Last night, someone posted a couple of sample images here: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/694300-mach2-waiting-list/?p=10752413 I would be int

To be clear, when I am talking about blinking images, I am not talking about evaluating a single 10 minute exposure. I am blinking the first exposure of the session with the last. They are separated b

In terms of making the adjustments to polar align the mount, being level matters very little. The only effect is that an adjustment to one axis might slightly affect the other, but as long as you put

Thanks!

Thanks. So if I want to respond back to the thread, that it's possible to use a mobile app over wifi to initialize the mount, but that you must unpark it from the last parked position, correct? Also,

I was reading a topic on Cloudy Nights where there is a user with no keypad. They're asking about initializing the Mach2 with a phone app and someone else made the claim that APCC is required before a

With the current discussion of ASTAP, I wanted to circle back on a problem that I described a couple of months ago, but had not yet investigated. I’ve had some time to troubleshoot and I understand wh

Yes, the LED colors are meaningful. When I upgraded my mount to absolute encoders, I found the Renishaw documentation for the read heads and it described the meaning of the colors. Essentially, red is

Right, but ASTAP is under active development. As was pointed out earlier in this thread, there have been fixes even since I used it last. It's possible that if the problem is there (and we still don't

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I agree. I suspect that it's an ASTAP problem, but something that APPM is doing is exposing it. It could be as simple as the fact that APPM is doing a large number of plate solves in a short period of

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I switched to ASTAP for my plate solves with SGP and am seeing what is probably the same issue described in the first post of this thread. In my case, when I do a modeling run in APPM, everything work

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If you use MaxIm, you should be able to download the GSC 1.1 catalog and solve directly from within MaxIm. Once you’ve solved, you can both sync the mount to the solved coordinates and also calibrate

I image with an 8" EdgeHD 800 and I get about the same performance that Tony does unless I guide with an OAG. The thing about the EdgeHD scopes is that they do not have mirror locks at all. They have

If the gain is about 1.14 electrons per ADU, it would work out just about right.

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Regarding the large attachments, no apology is necessary. Karen gave me instructions for tweaking the settings for my individual subscriptions. That seems like a perfect solution because people can se

Thanks so much! My subscriptions to both AP user groups were set to “unlimited”. I’ve set them both to zero, which should provide me with links instead of attaching them to the emails. This should wor