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