I used straight serial to serial, not the USB->Serial converter.

Thanks! I did it through the COM port and it was quick and painless!!!

Thanks. I assume this can be done using APCC instead of the keypad?

A couple of years ago at NEAIC I heard someone, I think it was George, describe how to rotate the right ascension gear 180 deg so that it wears evenly on the opposite side. I have an A-P 1600 mount wi

Doh!! That was embarrassing! Thanks.

I got my Stowaway yesterday. BEAUTIFUL! Thanks to Roland, Marj, and Karen! Stay safe. I note that the 92FF flattener shows a required nominal backfocus of 64.1mm. Since the camera end of the flattener

I just updated to the newest version of APCC and the driver. I park at Park-2, which is basically azimuth=90, altitude=0. When parked the altitude sometimes dithers a few arcseconds. With the new upda

Thanks Ray, this is indeed a complicated bit of geometry. So to be clear, if the weight is down and on the west side and the scope is on the east side pointing west (imaging a west of the meridian tar

Ray, I checked my ProDome driver setup and the settings are correct for my dome. The driver was written by Tim Long. I will experiment with APPM again when time permits and the moon is inhibiting deep

Forgot to add that the fact that it worked fine on the east side and not at all on the west side seemed to suggest that somehow the driver didn't know that the mount had flipped for western stars? Nev

Hi Ray, I know (knew) and fully understand what you're saying but this is still what happened over and over. All the geometry is properly entered in the ASCOM driver. It works perfectly with ACP. ACP

I've had a similar problem recently with APPM and a ProDome. The APPM and dome tracked fine for the eastern positions, but when APPM started acquiring western stars, the dome was considerably off to t

Have you been notified that you're one of the lucky ones in the first batch? Has anyone been notified?

Thanks, I'm at 38 deg. latitude so I'm guesing it'll be an inch or so lower. ...just trying to calcuate the needed pier height. Doesn't have to be too precise.

#Mach2GTO

Can someone give an estimate of height "B" in the attached image for the new Mach 2 mount? Thanks!

#Mach2GTO

Hi Ray, Thanks. Could you briefly explain the difference between the async park and the prior version? I downloaded it, and enabled async park.

Hi Ray, OK, thanks. But ACP was stalled waiting for the A-P ASCOM driver to report the scope parked. Can you look at the logs I've posted at the site I listed above. Thanks, Stacey

The APCC/ASCOM zipped logs are at: http://www.keplerian.com/APCC-Logs/

I've seen this only a few times but it keeps me awake at nights. When I got up this morning, the scope was properly parked but the dome was not closed. ACP was waiting for the "park" command to be com

I believe that the CP4 allows a direct connection to a PC via an ethernet card, rather than connection through the LAN? It seems like this would eliminate the lost communication issue due to traffic "