Hi, this a link to my portfolio (fi we want to call it like this :-)) Astrophotography (smugmug.com) and this attached is a picture of my set up. Thank you, ANdrea

Not an option in Europe right now: their electronics is not certified and are not imported for the time being

A big run please :-) I think a lot of AP owners may add a smaller 400 for lens work, comet photography, travel. Andrea

I had the same question when I decided for my mach2. To me, the 1100 in two parts is more portable if you can separate it, the mach2 is not light for my standard. But if you have encoders or internal

I use NINA, Ap driver and PHD2, all at the latest version, no issues. I am sure you did, if not you need to connect the mount also in PHD2. note: if you come from other guiding software , like me, ple

You can simply plate solve the image using a software like ASTAP and copy paste the coordinates

Thanks a lot for sharing :-)

I didn’t know this NINA setting, thank you!

Well, if the mirror is hyperbolic the corrector can be simpler. But I think you need almost the same lens diameter and secondary size to illuminate a certain sensor. Actually, the lens barrel is vigne

Wow, first light!

Rick, I have a maxcases 540. I have bought the same foam AP uses for shipping, which is high density and cutted with a saw to the mount shape. I find them of very good quality and reasonably priced in

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My opinion, the case would be too big. I have a pelican like case that can take just the mount and the combo it is already big and heavy… The only annoyance for me is to mount the saddle plate but it

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Very nice 👍

Yes, I will look into that. I mounted the setup in the afternoon and was very hot, may be something had to be retightened before the imaging run… Thank you

Hi Ray, thank you. I though at the model because it was the new thing put in the mix. Guiding was apparently good enough, 0,5 arcsec total rms error, but my stars are elongated. When I looked at the m

Hello, I am trying to build a dec arc model to work with my Mach2, but I haven't had much luck till now. I am probably making some mistakes somewhere and hope Ray and others can highlights some of the

Thank you Ray, I’ve probably slowed down the application in some way and it didn’t talk within the 60 sec. I will try to avoid any interaction while imaging in the future…

Hi Roland, will check next time. To add more details, the only thing I noticed was tracking toggled off in apcc. Everything remained connected and alive. A simple click on toggle on button resumed tra

Hi, just seen a strange behaviour with my mach2. -mount connected to NINA and guiding, mount connection through USB -I tried to connect an ipad to the CP5 access point and realized tracking was stoppe

Don’t know if useful, but One potential thing to check is the setting of a downsampling parameter in NINA. In my case I had selected binning in appm and down sample factor of 2 in NiNA. I think the tw