Hi Mike, Nice job on your pencilled setting circles. I was thinking the same thing about perhaps AP providing “stick-on-tape” setting circles as visual aids for their mounts, as an option. That would

Jeff, Have you taken into account “wind gust temperatures”, on the worst winter days, where you plan on moving to a colder location? Perhaps, the mount & encoders will be at reasonable temperatures –

Brian, Everyone should also check that they have THAT special AP-provided TEFLON washer/disk, on the threaded end of the shaft. Otherwise, you may find the steel seized into the mount axis, very diffi

Hi Barry, Guess I missed it – I assumed you had cemented-on a “threaded ABS fitting”, which would conveniently accommodate a threaded end-cap, so no need of the cap being stored in a case, or falling

Hi Ray, That’s an interesting warning about selecting different APCC Settings folders. I use the same laptop to control my “Home based AP-1200” mount most of the time, but I also own a “Travel AP-900”

A bonus for using USB-2, besides 3x the distance, is that those cables are “thinner”, by two extra wires in the sheath, than USB-3. So, the cable bundle inside the mount is just a bit looser, especial

We are probably off “Telescope Topic” on Win-10 causing serious unexpected problems, to be solved with just a fresh re-install – but ... Sorry, that’s not quite likely in many cases. A fresh install o

On the subject of OTA safety ... I would strongly suggest you be certain to have a wide head bolt, wider than the D-plate center groove – such as a 1/4-20 camera equipment lock nut – screwed UNDER the

Hi, I have always used PARK-2, the safest and easiest position from which to mount or dismount my RC-14.5 inch truss OTA – when I have to. I also use that position with a much lighter OTA, such as a Q

Bill – to you and your Colleagues at Microsoft... BRAVO – very well done indeed !!!!!! Joe Z.

Ray, sorry about my not being clear. What I meant to say is that after I managed to kill the tracking by rapidly going to the “Toggle Tracking” button, it would eventually toggle itself back on, for s

Ray, Is it possible to give us some control over the warning message’s screen position? A few times, I would get a Limits Exceeded warning, and had no way to get back to the control Tab, to turn off i

Hi, similar to the (sometimes undesirable) automatic Tracking hassle on APCC start up, I dislike the fact that ANY GOTO command automatically turns Sidereal Tracking back on. Recently, I was doing som

Hi Peter, I’ve been regularly doing 15 minute unguided photos with an RCOS-14.5 an my old AP-1200/CP4, and APCC PRO. However, this was only after dedicating several hours over a few nights to running

Hi, I get PEMPRO’s sometimes confusing target star selection, a lot as well. I was out there last night for very many hours just to get a PEMPRO polar align on my AP-1200/CP4. There were times, when i

Thanks Ray – As usual, an excellent response to my recent PEMPRO concerns. I have filed this gem away on my hard drive, for future relearning, or if I have another senior moment. Wish you would had wr

Ray, ... and TOM – I too commiserate with your frustration with polar alignment, when trying to get it perfect and permanent ... I ran a few more hours of PEMPRO tonight, and surprisingly, the rotatio

Hi Ray, Tube Currents in a Truss. Which 18” truss OTA do you use, and do the fans blow at the back of the primary to cool off the day heated glass, or blow out from the back, drawing ambient air strea

Yes, Ray. Confirmed. No modelling of any kind. Joe

Hi Ray, Just curious about this. While doing my polar alignment runs the other night, I shut down any apps that might have been running, including APCC. The idea was to eliminate any other app that mi