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Terri Zittritsch
Hi Wayne, you are free to e-mail me directly as well, I'm theresamarie11@.... Might be good to compare notes. I haven't figured out how to do a polar alignment during the day yet. Is that a feature of APCC?
Also curious if you installed the 5.30.08 V2 driver? I did my day one testing with 5.30.7 which went fine and yesterday installed 5.30.8. I saw some strange behavior where Cartes du Ciel thought the mount pointing around Deneb when it was clearly pointing at the pole. The V2 driver coordinates were consistent with where it was pointing in cartes du ciel, but the mount was in a park 3 orientation (pointing at pole). I did various resets, restarts to no avail, the driver coordinates would not align to where the mount was pointing. So I uninstalled the 5.30.8 and reinstalled the 5.30.7, which did nothing. But given some of my experience with ascom and how it may store things, I went to the telescope selection screen in cartes du ciel and selected EQmod (to presumably force a refresh of wherever ascom puts the code) then then re-loaded the V2 driver and this seemed to do the trick and all was back to normal. At this point, not sure if this was an issue with the 5.30.8, or even the way I updated the driver (which was error free). I'll stick with 5.30.7 for now until I get some clarification. I also need to figure out how to report such things formally. I'm sure a totally new mount will have a few glitches. best, Terri
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Wayne Hixson
Good morning Terri!
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Ray Gralak
Hi Terri,
At this point, not sure if this was an issue with the 5.30.8, or even the way I updated the driver (which was errorI'm absolutely sure whatever issue you saw with had nothing to do with the 5.30.08 driver. The only change was to add the missing custom slew rate option. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): http://www.astro-physics.com/index.htm?products/accessories/software/apcc/apcc Author of PEMPro V3: https://www.ccdware.com Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver: https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver -----Original Message-----
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Terri Zittritsch
Ray, do you suggest I try re-installing the 5.30.8 driver and give it another try. Should I do an uninstall first, or just install over the top?
best, Terri
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DFisch
Wayne, how are you attaching your pole master to the Mach2 TJF 📱
On Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 10:42 Wayne Hixson via Groups.Io <wayneh9026=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Terri Zittritsch
Hi Wayne, thanks
You will enjoy the polemaster. I used mine last night. You can use it as soon as the lowest gain settings allow you to see polaris and at least one of the surrounding stars that it uses. I've seen the AP RAPAS finder view which seems very similar, although much finer detailed, than an 80's 2080 LX5 polar scope I had. It came with a paper wheel which decoded where to find polaris on the finder. I always liked that, not sure why they discontinued it on newer models. If I didn't already have a polemaster I'd probably have purchased the RAPAS. Thanks on the daytime polar alignment. I'll have to see if it'll work good enough for solar imaging.. On my atlas, the only way for me to do this was to mark places on my drive, after getting good polar align in the evening, that I could bring the mount back to during the day. I use those little 3-wheel dollies to move the whole setup around. T
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Ray Gralak
Ray, do you suggest I try re-installing the 5.30.8 driver and give it another try. Should I do an uninstall first, orThere is no need to uninstall first. You can install over the top either going to a newer or older version of the driver. The same is true for APCC. You don't need to uninstall first when installing a newer or older version of APCC. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): http://www.astro-physics.com/index.htm?products/accessories/software/apcc/apcc Author of PEMPro V3: https://www.ccdware.com Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver: https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver -----Original Message-----
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Terri Zittritsch
You use the threaded adapter that is made for the AP900 mount. Terri
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