As Marj had announced during the day, there are new versions of APCC and ASCOM driver. I just saw it when I started the night session, what would be the changes and new features? And thanks to AP and

With Mars receding, its phase reduced to 97% and its apparent diameter rapidly shrinking, on the night of 2nd/3rd Jan 2023, I spent approximately 4 hours imaging Mars while Syrtis Major was rotating f

Hi everyone, I got my AP1100GTO on Christmas Eve and.............I've been looking at it in a bit of awe. Owning one of these mounts has been a dream of mine for a long time, and now it is right there

Hello all, Wishing everyone happiness and good health in the new year. I have questions regarding the installation of encoders on the 1100 mount. On the A.P website if you look at the mounts page and

Hi all, Just start playing with the APCC pro that came with our new AP1100GTO CP4. I upgraded ASCOM v2 driver to v5.50.03 and installed the latest APCC Pro1.9.4.3. During istallation there is no pop-u

I’m that guy who has a 10 micron gm2000 and went for an AP 1100AE for his second mount. been reading, studying, going through posts with trials and tribulations of other broders. APCC seems like a ver

All is in the title ! Yet another Hearth Nebula picture ! I share here the hearth of hearth, but the entire nebula fits the frame. The full ( 25% version) is here: https://www.astrobin.com/full/btzf0t

I've been occasionally getting motor stall and/or servo fault errors on my 1100AEL. They often seem to appear after the mount has slewed to an object and is tracking. I just noticed this in the ASCOM

Hi Everyone, First off, I hope you all had a Wonderfull Christmas and New Years. Secondly, I need some help with my Dec Arc modelling. I've been using and building Dec Arc modelling for a little while

I have been meaning to ask this for some time but a strange event today prompted me to remember... I have an AP1100AE. Generally speaking I understand how the encoders work normally, park positions, t

As you have seen from my other posts Ive been getting to know a 2007 model AP12000GTO with the CP3 v2 chip. Got it cleaned and re-greased with the AP kit put power to it from a new 5 amp pyramid AC po

I recently got a AP 10 x 42 portable pier. I think I need an adapter plate of some sort between the top of the portable pier and the bottom plate of the AP 1100 to line up the holes for the 5/16"-18 s

And be safe! Charlie and little MOOSE have a designated driver tonight :) tony

From the Cp4 manual “Connect your device to the network. You will be prompted for a password. The default password starting out will be: XXXXadmin12345 where again, the XXXX represents the numeric por

I am blessed and started to collect and use AP stuff in 2016 or so. Anyways, I now have both a 1600 and an 1100. The 1100 is my new portable setup, which I have yet to take portable....uggg. The 1600

Hello fellow Astronuts Interested in Dec Arc Modeling? Want to know how to use the AP NINA tools for on-the-fly model building? You're in luck! Astro-Physics has two new tutorial videos for you coveri

Hey AP'ers, I am working on a remote setup for my CDK14 and AP1100AE and I am running all of my devices through a DLI Pro IP Power Switch. I came across this nifty AC adapter from Powerwerx: 13.5 VDC

Hello Everyone. I acquired a nice used Mach 1 w CP3 and Keypad. The keypad has Beta 4.20 installed on it. Should I change it to 4.19.5 or is Beta 4.20 better? Looking through the notes, it looks like

Hi everyone If you use Chroma RGB filters and use PixInsight SPCC process, I have created definitions for the chroma R G and B filters. Happy to share them, just PM me and I can send you the csv files

Is there an adapter for the iPolar Electronics Polarscope? I prefer using iPolar because PoleMaster stopped working properly and I prefer the platesolving process of iPolar. The iOptron website doesn’