It's not uncommon that the gearboxes need to be remeshed after shipping. In 10 years, owning 3 Astro-Physics mounts (and helping with a few at star parties), the remesh procedure has corrected this pr

Since you qualified this for v4.19.5 and earlier, I got curious about v5.010. I found the answer on page 31 of the keypad manual for v5.010. There is an option in the Locations & Time menu called QwkD

The AP1100-AE would integrate beautifully with the gear that you have. My portable imaging rig is as follows: AP1100-AEL mount QSI 690wsg-8 camera with integrated filter wheel and OAG Starlight Xpress

Here is an image of my current home setup and an image that I captured last week with it. This is a very lightly loaded AP1600-AE. I wanted to show a picture of the same scope and imaging gear on top

To answer your question directly, I simply like the ASCOM driver UI for parking and unparking better than the APCC UI. It "feels" really clean to me to have APCC be the software that controls the life

How about “Barchetta” for the name of the mount?

With an Astro-Physics mount, you almost certainly need more counterweight than what the scope weighs. This is because of the way that the Dec half rides on top of the RA half. With no payload at all,

Ray, Can you please be more specific regarding this statement? My workflow is to start APCC Pro before any other software, with the ASCOM driver "Auto-Connect" unchecked. After I initialize the mount

I'm guessing that you've never had a Miata :) They are small, reasonably priced, absolutely reliable, and executed to near perfection for what they are. I could have a Maserati if I wanted one. I have

When I lived in the Seattle area, I kept my AP1600 set up in the back yard with a TG365 cover. One day, I uncovered the mount after a significant period of no clear nights. Some enterprising critter h

Yes, the AP1100 with encoders can be taken apart. The encoders don’t affect this at all. As for running cables through the mount, I use a Pegasus UPBv2 mounted on the OTA’s top rail to distribute powe

I don’t have a Mach2 and AP1100. I do have an AP1600 that I’ve been using as my imaging mount, and an AP1100 (without encoders) as a visual mount for my C14. After 12 years of transporting the AP1600

Yes. If your image capture software gets the celestial coordinates from the mount, and then writes them into a FITS header, the plate solver will use them to do a "local" plate solve. If your image ca

Yup. That's what I am saying. It's not a matter of courage. If I couldn't find a way to image in the wind, I wouldn't be able to image at all. It helps that I'm using an AP1600 with encoders, and only

I live in an area of high wind. I will eventually have a permanent observatory, but life keeps getting in the way of that project. My original setup at this site was an AP1600-AE on an AP portable fie

That was exactly my thinking until Howard’s comments below. -Wade

Are there any plans to expose configuring the orthogonality model via APCC or APPM? APPM collects samples near the zenith at both sides of the meridian, so it seems like it would be pretty simple to h

I thought that I'd go ahead and weigh in on this as well. Last year, I spent some time with unguided imaging with an APCC Pro model. This was before dec-arc tracking was introduced. I did notice on a

Thanks for the information. It seems like the simplest solution is to cut the stock cable and install PowerPoles so that I can use it either at the full length, or a short run. -Wade

I'm using P02-13. You can download it from here: https://www.astro-physics.com/gtocp4-upgrade/ -Wade