Hi, Has anyone come up with a solution on determining sky quality for imaging (no scattered clouds or thick high clouds) without human intervention? Cloud sensors work well to prevent your equipment f

As we enter the weather season ....what is the recommendation for telescope electronics being on or off in ambient temperatures between 0 and 32 degrees F? appreciate a rationale for either answer. th

I am using APCC w AP1200/CP4. Every month or two, i get 'failure to get "lat/long from mount" when starting up APCC. mount power has been on for 10's of minutes before starting APCC. i am running an a

anyone have any experience with large Donut in image as to where is it is occurring? have included animation to show strange intensity variability and with features within the donut. ----- Forwarded M

TPO RC-12, SBIG STF-8300m with filter wheel w 37mm filters, AP 0.67x reducer, shooting at 1700mm, off axis guider, AP1200 mount on permanent pier group observatory, 10 min consecutive ha subs animatio

would someone please provide guidance or past experience on this? Shooting Sh2-254, Ha bin 2, large donut appeared on the edge of my images that covers about 33% of the image, with about 60% of the do

My experience with some full moon limited testing with increasing moon separation distance using a 7nm Ha filter has shown.... that the background noise will become asymptomatic at about 60 deg distan

Does any one have any experience plate solving with a SCT? In my case a 12" Meade. If i plate solve east of the meridian, then pointing east of the meridian is good, but not west of the meridian. If i

Thanks Ray for the confirmation! Appreciate it as always!!! dave

Let me confirm what you are saying? 1) at park = true ,and when Parked at Park positions 1-5. must unpark, start tracking before slewing can occur? 2) at park= true can occur if pointing at a star and

Sorry Ray we are not communicating......Step by step.... i was imaging M76 when weather pause occurred....Mount was parked for about a hour (APCC confirms) When weather cleared....CCDCommander told mo

Is it possible that after slewing to M76, a "park" was issued and before ASCOM/driver could respond or the mount move, there was a slew issued? dave

thanks,,,,but a question because i am still confused......according to APCC log.....the mount had slewed to M76 and "at park" was true...and when told to slew to Sh2-234 got the exception because it w

Hi Ray, I am getting this error from ASCOM/driver "check_connected: Exception : bMustNotBeParked and g_bParked: True, True : SlewToCoordinatesAsyn" Do you have any insight on this exception and what m

question for Ray on APCC. Any APCC performance downside or side effects with shutting down APCC by; close all other applications, park mount, and then close APCC by 1) clicking APCC window close check

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Ray, i have a couple of APCC questions. 1) What can i be doing to cause the PEC enable button to become disabled without pushing it from one night to the next? I always shut down APCC after every sess

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I have these on my CP4. dave

i usually do my APMM models during full moon using Luminance filter....Haven't lost a point yet near the moon, even when I have seen the moon's reflection in the image. maybe lucky so far. the only po

Thanks Ray! Another question......what kind of problems might i see if i accidently left the pointing model running during a camera guiding calibration and running of pempro? I think i had a brain far

sorry for confusion......AP1200. I understand that the APCC pointing model not only improved pointing but helped tracking according to Ray. I experienced it myself after creating a pointing model. Sin