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

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

Our fans are the very best! We did, indeed, make it into the Top 8 Coolest Things Made in Illinois. We’re now up against a formidable foe – 17th Street BBQ Sauce, which has a large following. So we’d

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

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

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

Well I tried my 1100 AE for the first time tonight, very excited about getting good guiding for once. It was VERY disappointing. Conditions were near perfect. Seeing was rated as very good. There was

Will AP be releasing this number, and maybe the number of expected production units? Just seeing what the odds will be like. Thanks Bob

Hi there, Steve Reilly (sreilly24590@...) invited you to view the file "ApccZip-Steven_Reilly-2023-03-16-161724.zip" on Dropbox. View file Enjoy! The Dropbox team Steve and others will be able to see

I'm trying to use the Horizons tool in APCC to track the ISS, which I realize is a bit challenging. I created the ephemeris, apparently successfully, but when I go to load or copy it into the Horizons

We are delighted to introduce the first 110mm f6 StarFire GTX production scopes! The 110mm F6 Starfire GTX dual-purpose portable refractor was designed with three goals in mind: 1) a compact refractor

Hello All, I got my AP V2 Driver working with PemPro V3 on my 1600GTO. I then shut down and when I tried to startup again by pressing the "Setup Telescope" icon, an orange colored warning banner appea

Karen- Please post the link to vote for Astro- Physic's at least once a day. I wouldn't shy away from some shameless, though well deserved, self promotion. -Best, Robert

Hi everyone Has anyone tried this combination of an optec focuser (such as FT30) being controlled by the Ultimate Powerbox V2 motor controller? I've heard mixed reviews: Some say it works, others have