Thanks Ray. I finally got a couple of hours last night and everything worked great. I think I should have been a beta tester. If I can't screw it up it is ready for release:) I will second what Chris

I feel like a kid caught stealing a cookie when you said, "unless you were physically changing it". Anyway I downloaded a couple of files in Jeffs C files. After reading your message yesterday I went

Ray, I took the scientific approach and pushed just about every button last night, but only one at a time:) I did press that button but it didn't seem to make any difference as it was reading the appr

Thanks Ray. Under the Lattitude/ Longitude in the "Site Setup" area the longitude kept changing from West to East. Jeff

I am using ACP and posted on their website as well but thought i might find some help here. I uploaded the new AP driver 99.42 and just like last night things started off fine. Then after meridian fli

Thanks Wade. I set the backlash to 5 seconds in the mount and left maxim at 0 and got a nice zigzag pattern from Pempro. Unfortunately the clouds moved in so i will check results tonight. Jeff

Thanks Ray. Its beginning to sink in how this works now. Jeff

thanks Ray, So will the driver "override Maxim" if i have a zero setting in Maxim or will Maxim win? Also does 00.00.10 sound like a reasonable backlash? I have never used this setting before thanks j

I have an AP1200. I measured the dec backlash via Pempro yesterday and found the best results with 00.00.10 with the ASCOM setting under AP telescope control. I use Maxim as well and that also has a b

I noticed that you had success guiding with an efinder. If you had been using an efinder to guide (since that is only 100mm FL) how did you have success guiding? Your arcsec/pixel has to be at least a

Dean, I would really appreciate it you could tell me what your imaging train looks like. I have the flattener (not super reducer) and i am getting the MMOAG and was wondering how its all put together.

I had this same setup with TOA150 and same guide scope on an AP900 and it worked great. When I put a much bigger camera on it (PL16803 and CFW) and upgraded to the AP1200. I had to change my guider an

I continue to fight with getting good guiding and have another question please. I am imaging at 1.69 arcsec/pixel and guiding at 9.5 arcsec/pixel. Could this be the source of my problem? I know they s

Just some follow up and thanks to be given. the AP 1200 is guiding beautifully now that i decreased the aggresiveness and rebalanced the dec axis. I still get trailing stars the first few images after

I did numerous 5 minute images with Y axis completely off last night and get perfectly round stars. These were binned 2X2 however. At 1X1 i am shooting at 1.69 arcsec/pixel. jeff

Thanks everyone. Yes I am sure it is just Dec. jeff

Well I had a clear night and all the guiding error is in the Dec Axis. Would differential flexure have error in only one axis? The Y axis (Dec) on Maxims guiding graph shows that at times the guiding

Hello, Yes I did check the Pier flip and no I just purchased it new from this last production run via Anacortes. I realized after my last post that although I know the guider orientation I do not know

Never mind. I will test next clear night. thanks jeff

I tested the guider direction with the move command in Maxim and it seems like both dec and RA. Jeff