hello Astronuts, Image taken by Howard Hedlund and processed by Dave Jurasevich. Taken at our Las Campanas Chile observatory with the AP 305F8 Mak-Cass astrograph. https://astrob.in/8uk2u3/0/ Rolando

Beautiful pic! Love the title! 😎 Pete

Crescent Moon setting on the western horizon in Hawaii. It's called the Canoe Moon by locals since it resembles a voyaging canoe when it touches the waters of the Pacific. Taken with my 92 Stowaway wh

Back in the day I would wax my surfboard. I nearly drowned once so I gave it up. I used to wax my skies, but I gave that up since I am far from a performance skier. I am too old to wax off any body ha

Hello. I have a question on the Mach2 internal cabling, probably more-so directed at the folks as AP. The specs state a USB 3.0 and DC power cable that are pre-installed. My question is: Is there any

Hi all, I trust you are all doing well. I am willing to upgrade my AP 1100 GTO with Absolute Encoders. Does anybody know about availability for Europe / Switzerland ? AP's website mentions "spring 202

I have a 1600 GTO on order and I am looking for the counterweight bar and toe protector thread size and dimensions. The reason I am looking for this as I plan on modifying my Schaefer AT-9 with a 1.87

Hello all On a whim yesterday I placed an order for a Mach1 CP3 being sold in the UK. I was looking for a new mount to replace my iOptron CEM40, I'm very excited to step in to the world of precision m

Hi fellow Astronuts, Tonight I am celebrating the completion of the 1000th 130 lens in the GT/GTX series. So, I wonder who will get this scope? Rolando Champagne perhaps? -- Roland Christen Astro-Phys

I'll apologize in advance for my ignorance. Hoping someone has had experience with APPM in a Dome with the telescope mount offset by several feet from the center. In my case it is a 15 foot Pro Dome a

I am having an issue with trying to change from using the default IP address for my GTOCP4 to a DHCP assigned one. I have been connecting with the default one until now (direct connection from GTOCP4

Congrats on an Amazing run Roland!!! 🔭 Did you continue the numbering sequence into the GTX scopes? Needless to say I’m the proud owner/operator of a 130GT (13063-164). 😎 Pete

Fault in the GTOCP4 controller. Sounds like a minor fix.

Hello everybody, I recently purchased a used 1200DA mount that had the QMD + DSC encoder upgrade, and it has a problem that I'm wondering if anyone out there has experienced. The RA axis is very stiff

Trying to figure out how to design meridian limits to enable tracking from the east side as soon as possible. That is to start with counterweights Up if within limits, or if not, to flip as early as p

Hi All, Here are links to newly released versions of APCC Standard, Pro, and AP V2 ASCOM driver. AP V2 ASCOM driver 5.50.03 (Release) This includes a fix for the issue reported by Linwood earlier toda

Hi everybody, I hope you are doing well. I am in the process of installing my software etc on a brand-new PC. While trying to install APCC, I was stopped by the following message that I keep getting.

I am curious if AP has any plans to produce a Harmonic Drive mount? I recently purchased a Rainbow Astro RST-135E because I was looking for a light weight portable mount I could use for Solar imaging

Hi This has started a while ago. I am no longer able to plate solve with APPM. I am using TheSkyX and this is working perfectly in Voyager and in the Sky itself. I attempt to do a plate solve and reca

Hi A-P. I am on the waiting list for an 1100 GTO mount to use with a 180mm Scope. Scope should arrive in June, and am wondering what the current outlook is for the next batch of 1100 mounts? I have al