Hello, Pete, I too have a Mach1 CP3. I have not gone beyond the KISS stage. ASCOM driver (with PEC enabled), planetarium and imaging software have fulfilled all of my needs. The mount itself tracks ex

Hello, Roland, That is a wonderful image. Was it straight HOO or some other palette? Also, you seem to have a lot more Ha than OIII. I would have thought the opposite. Thanks, Clem ===================

APT has an option to connect to mount automatically. Try turning that off. Maybe launch the ASCOM driver using CdC and then connect mount with PHD2 and APT. Clem ============================ My flickr

Hello Robert, Wonderful shot. Just curious about the subs you threw out because of high humidity. In what way were they so much worse than the others? I have been eyeing the ASI12600, so I need to rem

I have used ASPS. It does the job. I now use ASTAP which has its own catalogue and solves extremely quickly. Blind solve and "sync" should do it for you. Clem. ============================ My flickr g

Hello Terri, I think the software system is a lot less complicated than you perceive. For my Mach 1 I have just the A-P ASCOM driver. Anything that needs to talk to the mount talks to the ASCOM driver

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Hello Suresh, I use APT. I usually first launch Cartes du Ciel and "Connect Telescope" from that. That connects to the A-P ASCOM driver (or whichever ASCOM mount driver I happen to be using that eveni

Thanks, Steve. I could never decide just what it was used for. Clem ============================ My flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33442240@N06/ My astrobin gallery: https://www.astrobi

Thank you Mike. I use PHD2 for autoguiding via ASCOM. I was just curious about this particular piece of software. Don't know if it still has any use, or just legacy. Clem ============================

Hello all, The software Pulse Guide is in the CD that came with my mount. I see that it is still listed in Ray Gralak's website. I have never used it and I have not seen any mention of it in any of th

Thanks, Ray. Clem ============================

Hello all, I am seeing more discussions about these and I honestly have not understood all of it. I would appreciate an explanation that would be understood by someone who is not an engineer, but not

Thanks, Dale. Clem ============================

Hello Dale, Do you have any specific recommendations with regard to the proper USB cables? Thanks, Clem ============================ My flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33442240@N06/ My a

I use an Intel NUC, all USB3, with a serial-to-USB cable. Connects with no difficulty to the ASCOM driver. You may have to search for the mount among the Windows assigned ports. If you find the mount

I have had this happen with my Mach1 a couple of times. This is the batch without spring-loading. The PHD2 guiding graph would look so much like what we used to ascribe to stiction with my old CG5. I