Hello fellow astronomy enthusiasts, It's my very first post here :) I recently had the pleasure of using my new AP Mach2 equatorial mount for the first time during an astrophotography session, and I m

As I wait to order an 1100GTO, I want to buy and set up the electrical equipment. The mount will be secured to a cart - on an AP 42” Portable Pier. It will carry a load of about 40 pounds: Steallarvue

Last night I had a momentary power loss from my battery box and when power was restored to mount and communications resumed it was lost and asked to be un-parked. I thought it would start from the las

I just installed the new 5.60.05 version of the AP-V2 Driver and after connecting to successfully APCC with the latest CP4 (P02-15) software installed, and after opening the AP-V2 Driver I am getting

This is not specific to AP mounts, so please forgive me if this isn't appropriate here. I figure this is a pretty sophisticated group that may have some answers. I will also post this to CN but the SN

Hi, I have a new Edge C11 at FL 2800 and want to optimize my Mach1 performance (and guiding). I have collimated the scope and the is luckily almost no tilt. I am using my ASI 6200 and will be binning

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I call it the Beast of Tinagra! You'll need to be a star trek fan to know what that is! My son Oliver helped me lift it. About 50 lbs and it needed 1 30 lb and 2 18lb counterweights. Using the counter

So recently purchased an AP900GTO which should arrive me next week. So until then I won't get to give it a good go over, but seems to be in very nice condition. This will be my first AP mount, so I th

Hi ya bunch of AstroNuts! My 1100GTO-AEL showed up and now comes the part where I learn to use new software to operate it. :) I know a couple of the programs I'll be using are NINA and PHD2, but what

I am my 1100 GTO mount ready to install absolute encoders. George suggested that in the meantime I should install the latest versions of the GTOCP4 and Keypad Software. I am currently running VCP4-P02

I am running another pointing model on my 1600AE; an error is generated saying the Dec encoder could not be read, check the encoder head. What is going on? The error only appeared on a couple of frame

Hey, Lowbrows, Astronuts and Buckeyes— This may be TL;DR, but I think it’s an entertaining story for some cloudy night when observers can’t see the stars and imagers have all of their processing up to

Had some good seeing last night for about 1.5 hours before a thick marine layer moved in. I'm impressed by what this camera was able to record with the 110 GTX. There's like a half zillion galaxies in

Quick question... For a mount like the 1100 with encoders, what is the difference between issuing a Park command vs Home? I can of course Park to various positions under the Park tab. I can set some a

Thanks for the responses. I figured I would have to get the mount dialed in as last night was my first try, although I was surprised it didn't do better right out of the box. My guide scope is a WO 61

Hi everyone I experienced an unscheduled imaging comparison between tracking with sky modeling enabled, and tracking with sky modeling disabled. I am running my unguided widefield 80mm refractor with

I’m trying to nail down an issue where ACP sends a park command to the mount but seems to hang/fail. This has happened several times in the past but is erratic. In this case ACP was running the shutdo

I just got the AP 1100 AE, and am already stuck. I bought it with the hand control although I will use it remotely 90% of the time. I have read all three 70-page manuals--twice-- and have watched two

Hi fellow Astronuts, Some of you may know about this sky survey that was started by David Mittleman, Sean Walker and Dennis Di Cicco. They are using two of our 130GTX scopes with Quad TCC operating at