Good suggestion Kent about adding leveling screws to the end s of the A-P pier legs. I may give that a try. Mike

Hi Patrick I use an 8-inch portable pier with my 1100 mount. I am very happy with it, but please take a look at my comments on the thread about paying attention to the declination top plate locking kn

To Jeffrey's comment about loading his scopes with the mount in Park 3, I used to do the same thing until I read a suggestion to load them with the mount in Park 2. This made a tremendous difference,

Thanks for the photos Jeff C. In my younger days I used to carry my assembled 800 mount and 8-inch portable pier all at once, but no more. Everyone is talking about climate change, but what we should

Hi Joe Great suggestions about using tape to mark out setting circles. I may give that a try. I used pencil to make the marks because I wanted to be able to remove them if necessary. The pencil smudge

George & Shailesh Good point about the holding screws. For some reason I seem to recall reading in the mount assembly instructions that they did not need to be installed if the user was planning to re

Here's a little lesson learned tidbit that I just discovered on my 1100 mount: I have been noticing lately when setting up the mount with my 180 EDT that there is some play in the dec. axis. I thought

To Robert's earlier comment about inflation - You ain't seen nothin' yet. We will be seeing $4.50/gallon gas before you know it. In any case, I am very happy with my 1100 GTO mount. No regrets whatsoe

Thanks Roland Is there a recommended time limit for how long a PE curve can be used before it should be updated ? I am still using the original PE curve that was programmed into the mount when I bough

Hi Bob I don't live in the southern hemisphere, but the RAPAS reticle is set up for both northern (Polaris) and southern (Sigma-Octans) hemisphere use. I don't know how bright Sigma Octans is, but you

Hi Mike Thanks for the comments. Yes, I use MaxIm DL Pro for imaging and guiding. I always use a separate guide scope piggybacked on top of the main imaging scope (in spite of Roland's recommendations

I have a 1100 GTO mount without absolute encoders, and I have been wondering how good I can expect the guiding to be. The guiding graph below is pretty typical of what I get. Is this pretty typical, o

Thanks Jeff I bought the Polar Scope Align Pro Watch app for my iPhone yesterday and I kept my old A-P Polar Align app as well. The Polar Scope Align app warns that the position of Polaris may not exa

I have been running the A-P Polar Align version 1.1.62 since I first got my mount and RAPAS in 2018. Will it continue to work as long as I have this phone, or will there be some point in time at which

I used to mount my 180 EDT (OTA weight 35 pounds) with the mount in Park 3 until I read Roland's suggestion to do this from Park 2. The Park 2 option is WAY better ! If you have a bad back like me you

Do you live in an area where the water table is close to the surface, or where the bedrock is far below (e.g. Texas Gulf coast) ?

Hi Mark That will be a very expensive tap since it is not a standard size. I hope you are not asking because the counterweight shaft threads in the Dec axis cap are stripped. If that is the case you w

Hi Mark I measure the OD of the threads at 1.083" with a thread pitch of 14 tpi. This is definitely not an ANSI standard thread. Maybe Roland, Howard, or George can comment on the reason this size was

I want to make sure I understand Marj's comment above. Are you saying that for those of us with older keypads and software versions (mine is S/N 4298 GTO with software version 4.19.2), we should wait

Correction - I bought the mount in 2018, not 2010.