Have a first generation 1600GTO, CP4, Planewave CDK17, permanently mounted. I have noticed what looks like an RA oscillation. I can see it when guiding certainly, and the mount will "run off" in RA fo

Hi, I am doing imaging in the field with Mach2. It's cold (-3 deg C) and dry. The night started smoothly, for about four hours. Then in the past two hours, Mach2 randomly parked itself (and stopped tr

Merry Christmas Tony! Keep those helpers warm! 🎄 Pete

MERRY CHRISTMAS Stay safe on the roads this Christmas Eve with all the bad weather going on throughout the country. tony

All of us at AP wish all of you and your families a very happy and healthy holiday season!! We are very thankful to be associated with such an experienced, helpful and supportive group of people! Your

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Happy holidays and best wishes for 2023 to everybody. Clear skies, Richard

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. Thank you to all the folks at Astro-Physics for your patience, support, and encouragement. What a great group of folks you all are. Sincerely, Don Gaines

If the guide rate is set to 1 which is 15 arc-sec/sec does for example a 100msec pulse value direct the mount to move 1.5 arc-seconds further in the next second than it otherwise would have. Also: 1)

Seeing that we are a couple days from the first day of winter, I thought I'd be contrarian and post a summer target. I originally shot this June/July, but I got a bit carried away processing it. I ove

Hello APers, We've had a winter storm here which knocked out my internet access so I worked on some old data of mine from 2017 of the Pacman Nebula. https://www.astrobin.com/full/0t3ed3/0/ This was ta

Winter is here in Michigan and I decided I want to swap OTA's on the 1100GTO out in my observatory. I know that in the cold weather the grease seems to get thicker and fine balancing becomes "fun". An

Hi, A-P team (and forum members), It's been bad weather and extremely busy work the last couple of weeks, so I haven't been able to spend as much time as I'd like with my new 1100. Even the nights I'm

I got a Mach 2 notification yesterday. From reading the various posts here, it seems the standard encoders work correctly until down to atleast -10F. Just wanted to check if anyone has a different exp

Looks like Blur-X-Terminator to the rescue! That tool is going to make a huge splash and totally change the quality of images if you use PixInsight. For those of you that do not yet know about Blur-X-

Howdy Astronuts, I dug out an old image taken many years ago and posted it on AstroBin: https://www.astrobin.com/5i7uuv/0/ This image was taken with my 10" Mak-Cass at F14.6 with a 5.4 micron pixel CC

Hi all, Went back to play with some older 2019 data with today's new fancy processing tools. I shot this with the Stowaway and my ML16200 camera that I no longer have. Mount was the 1100AE. https://ww

Hi All, it seems that the area around IC 417, IC 410, IC 405 is popular this month. :-) I spent a chilly night out imaging this area too last night. Here is the result: https://www.astrobin.com/full/c

Hi Everyone. This is my first post to this group. My name came up on the 1100GTO waiting list and I have one on order expecting delivery in January. I need to decide on a tripod/pier to mount it on. M

Greetings group, I have an Astro-Physics 1200 Mach1 mount Serial # 1200797 and it has just started running on its own when powered on. What I mean is I will park it using Nina shut Nina down and ALL o