You are certainly in heavily chartered skies with great result. -Best, Robert

Hello everyone, I am a brand new astrophysics 1100 GTO owner, and I’m having some trouble with the point modeling software and was hoping for some advice about correct settings. I use sequence generat

Rolando (et al), Below I've included a couple paragraphs you mentioned a while back on evaluating seeing. I'm about to try and generate some new periodic error curves for my AP1100 (no AE) and I thoug

Hello fellow Astronuts, I was going to post another deep sky image that I took last 2 days, but have hit a snag. I was going very deep field with it and discovered a fairly large bubble nebula near th

Now that it's official that the 110GTX did not discover a new PN, here is the image of Thor's Helmet taken yesterday: https://www.astrobin.com/irp1zf/0/ The PN at the top looks quite prominent, but is

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

Roland, Spent some time looking through the larger image on my laptop… a mesmerizing image! 😎 Pete

You picture, I assume you wanted to share, did not post correctly

Hello, I don't understand how to manage the "unpark" at the beginning of a new session with APCC. When I power off, my mount is parked. At the next session, when I power on, I just would like mount be

Hi all, Hopefully an easy solution, but I'm not finding it in the manual nor in several attempts. New AP1100GTO (December delivery), non-AE, w/Keypad. NOW Testing with Keypad ONLY (completed testing w

Hi everyone It is my last day here at Obstech, I managed to take a short 5 min exposure of the milky way over the northern mountains. it was 10x30 seconds ISO 320 on a Canon RA with 14mm f1.8 (apertur

Hi, I have a 2007 model AP1200 GTO CP3 with Handset GTO-1 S/N2401GTO 2707. I've used it many times with out issues, including tonight to issue slew to Mars, but after finishing imaging Mars, I thought

Hi everyone I write to you from Chile. We had a unique chance to visit Las Campanas and the Magellan twin telescopes for a few nights. The night operators were incredibly friendly and we sat for 3-4 h

Hey Astronuts, Lowbrows, and Buckeyes— Forgive my astroimager-newbie enthusiasm for an ordinary image, but we finally had a run of fairly good nights here in the Tampa Bay area and I’ve been able to g

Hi All, Below I have posted two screen shots of guiding with the 110GTX scope piggybacked on a 12" astrograph on my 1600 AE mount. I don't use separate guide scopes because the ones available have too

Single 5 minute exposure LRGB with the 110 GTX and F5 TCC https://www.astrobin.com/oc6jwm/

It may seem counterintuitive but dark and very clear almost always is accompanied by bad seeing (high star motion). When the sky is murky, hazy and very still, that's when the seeing can be exceptiona

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 recently purchased a used AP1100GTO equipped with the GTOCP4/Absolute Encoder upgrade. I purchased an Intel NUC computer for interface at the mount, accessed via TightVNC on a remote computer. I hav

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dick C <dixiemail123@...> Date: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 9:57 AM Subject: 1100AE mediocre guiding To: <main+owner@ap-gto.groups.io> Ok, guys, I ran my 140mm re