For a while, my start up routine with the Mach2 and NINA have consisted of the following: 1) set up Mach2 and telescope, balance, rough polar align (no hand controller used with the Mach2) 2) launch A

My mount was working great till today. I have an eagle 4 on top of it and remote in. I power the mount with a Jackery 1000 using the AP power brick into Jackery. Out of no where I can not connect thru

Morning all, After having fined-tuned my polar alignement through PEMPRO (what a great tool !!!!), I ran yesterday a new model with approximately 150 points. Below is a screenshot of the models (East

Hi everybody, I just became the owner of an AP900GTO of 1999 fitted with CP3 V1 chip and a Keypad. What is the procedure to perform a re-greasing of the motor box because the grease seems to be old (t

Few months ago there was a thread about how do you store and transport your counter weights. Gun cases and other stuff was posted. While I’ve been doing this, I had my boxes packed away and have just

Hello everyone, I am new to this group (and new to Astro-Physics products in general). I will receive a second hand AP 900GTO in almost new condition with CP4 upgrade within few weeks. In the meantime

I whacked my head on my telescope the other just before bringing it inside. No damage to scope or head I think, however the Mach2 moved in the dec axis a bit from its park position so that now the lin

Still Trying to understand meridian limits and their effect on GO TO s. I’ve mapped east and west meridian limits (which are different). I have a lot of opportunity to start with the scope on east sid

I am considering purchasing a well used AP900GTO CP3 with hand controller and am in need of advice on what to check on the actual mount prior to purchase. I want to be sure there are no major issues w

When starting a sky model, you have an option to start at the zenith. Is there a way to do that with the scope on the east side of the mount instead of the west?

After a long break (covid, shocking weather) I have finally got a new image. The image is here https://www.astrobin.com/b3cp3w/ There are not many images of this galaxy. I found it quite a difficult o

Hi, Rolando— Regarding the A-P Mak at the Carnegie station on Las Campanas: After years of hoping I could finally take part in one, I’m signed up for the upcoming Sky & Telescope tour of a number of C

Asking for a friend…. Is it OCD to have different meridian maps for different setups? 😃 For example one for a OSC camera with more clearance than a mono camera with filter wheel and OAG? Might make a

I'd like to embed a QHY guidescope and camera semi-permanently inside a Mach1. That's good for polar alignment because it has better accuracy than, say, the Polemaster and being attached to the mount

I was wondering about Safety Slew in the context of CP3 mounts. First tho, I had a question: .What is the purpose of the “safety slew”? And I found the answer in the docs: https://astro-physics.info/t

Hi all, Is it me or my computer? I tried watching Dale Ghent's You Tube video "APPM Dec Arc modeling from NINA, explained" and I can barely hear anything. Let me know please and if it's my computer I'

Is there a practical time allotment that we should keep our logs files? It occurs to me that over the years these files could consume a great deal of space on our imaging systems. And if there is that

I am using the RAPAS for the first time to polar align my Mach2. I live in Bortle 6 skies (suburban Sacramento, CA). My question is that after moving the mount and tripod, I was finally able to get a

Hi. I have started playing around a bit more with N.I.N.A as an alternative to SGP. I keep having too many issues with SGP lately. I was curious if the two methods mentioned in the YouTube video for s

Every time the time zone changed I had timing issues. I even built up my latest NUC here in New Mexico and it still defaults to pacific time zone. It turns out time zone settings are correlated with l