I was once told that Scott's shop looks like a disaster area. I agree. The fit and finish of the AP instruments is supperior in all respects. Guess I'll get on the list for a 1200 goto and put the QMD

John, Initially, our goal was to allow upgrades for older 400, 600E, 900 or 1200 stepper motor mounts. However, the accuracy demanded of a go-to mount is much higher than a conventional mount. As the

I just an early copy of the December S+T. Congratulations to Charles Sinsofsky, whose DSV program received both an excellent review AND inclusion as one of the 25 hottest products of 1999! The only th

When polar aligning, a constant frustration for me is my inability to adjust the N/E/W/S button speed when centering the alignment star. No matter what speed I pick at the initial screen, as soon as I

Hi Guys; Well the latest from Marj at AP is that the computer chip to bring the keypad up to version 2.5 and to able to download fron the AP website is behide schedule. They could not give a date when

Hi All, I'm wondering How may of you have had to spend time squaring your scopes with your AP Mounts. I'm having some small problems with the pointing accuracy. I've done drift aligments, and added sh

Since I have not seen any comments on our GTO mounts and how things are going I will just ramble out a few words. I recently had my keypad upgraded(great service BTW) to Version 2.6....The major impro

Just wanted to know if any of you fellows are going to the Winter Star party. tickets for those that got into the lottery were mailed nov. 13 1999. Please reply if you hold tickets to the event. I did

A couple questions about the 900 mount. What kind of pointing accuracy can I expect with the mount, including solar system objects? I still have polar alignment to get more precise and have not dealt

I guess I should send this directly to AstroPhysics, but I wonder if they are considering something larger then the current 1200 goto mount. When considering the availability of large Ritchie and clas

Hello everyone, What type of microphones and computer combinations have you found to work best with the DSV. My desktop is a Pentium II 350 with 128MB RAM, and my laptop is a Pentium 120 with 48MB Ram

Hi Goto'ers This image I took with the 4" AP Traveler at f/6, using the ST8 NABG and CFW8 color wheel from my back yard last night. While it does not approach Robert Gendler's stunning image in scale

Hi There, several of you have GTO mounts. I would like to purchase a quality wireless two-way communications system that will allow me to communicate in both directions (to and from)the DigitalSkyVoic

Several recent email messages to this group have had ads that try to put cookies on your computer. Often more than one cookie attempt per email message. Rich

Hi there, I will be receiving an AP130F6 refractor with a 2.7" rack and pinion focuser and a 600EGTO mount in January/February. I would like to add a motor drive to my focuser that I can control with

Hi all, Here is my first image with the AP900 GTE that Santa delivered the day before Christmas. C11 with ST8. Sum of 4 five minute images at f/6.3. http://sciastro.net/flashca/m33grayx.jpg Happy Holi

Hi from france I bought 3 weeks ago a Starlight Xpress mx916 ccd camera,the manufacturer tell me than this sort of camera can do selfguide.I would like to know if someone try autoguiding an AP gto mou

http://sciastro.net/flashca/m42x_kuberek.jpg Bob Kuberek

I've tried a Nikon teleconverter with my 12.5" f/7 newt on the AP 1200 GTO mount. It figures out to be 3100mm focal length at f/10 with the teleconverter. I did some 2 hour exposures of NGC 891 and M-

I have a 110V to 12V converter. The converter when setting idle puts out 14Volts. Is this a problem if I want to power my ST-4 and my 600GTO mount with the conveter?. Does the 600GTO mount and the ST-