Hello, I don't understand how to manage the "unpark" at the beginning of a new session with APCC. When I power off, my mount is parked. At the next session, when I power on, I just would like mount be

Hi all, Hopefully an easy solution, but I'm not finding it in the manual nor in several attempts. New AP1100GTO (December delivery), non-AE, w/Keypad. NOW Testing with Keypad ONLY (completed testing w

Hi everyone It is my last day here at Obstech, I managed to take a short 5 min exposure of the milky way over the northern mountains. it was 10x30 seconds ISO 320 on a Canon RA with 14mm f1.8 (apertur

Hi, I have a 2007 model AP1200 GTO CP3 with Handset GTO-1 S/N2401GTO 2707. I've used it many times with out issues, including tonight to issue slew to Mars, but after finishing imaging Mars, I thought

Hi everyone I write to you from Chile. We had a unique chance to visit Las Campanas and the Magellan twin telescopes for a few nights. The night operators were incredibly friendly and we sat for 3-4 h

Hey Astronuts, Lowbrows, and Buckeyes— Forgive my astroimager-newbie enthusiasm for an ordinary image, but we finally had a run of fairly good nights here in the Tampa Bay area and I’ve been able to g

Hi All, Below I have posted two screen shots of guiding with the 110GTX scope piggybacked on a 12" astrograph on my 1600 AE mount. I don't use separate guide scopes because the ones available have too

Single 5 minute exposure LRGB with the 110 GTX and F5 TCC https://www.astrobin.com/oc6jwm/

It may seem counterintuitive but dark and very clear almost always is accompanied by bad seeing (high star motion). When the sky is murky, hazy and very still, that's when the seeing can be exceptiona

Hi ya bunch of AstroNuts! My 1100GTO-AEL showed up and now comes the part where I learn to use new software to operate it. :) I know a couple of the programs I'll be using are NINA and PHD2, but what

I recently purchased a used AP1100GTO equipped with the GTOCP4/Absolute Encoder upgrade. I purchased an Intel NUC computer for interface at the mount, accessed via TightVNC on a remote computer. I hav

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dick C <dixiemail123@...> Date: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 9:57 AM Subject: 1100AE mediocre guiding To: <main+owner@ap-gto.groups.io> Ok, guys, I ran my 140mm re

Hi all … interesting issue last evening. Last night, while running a NINA sequence to take 24 O3 and S2 subs of the Medusa nebula, an interesting problem/issue occurred. Between subs 12 and 13 (1:00AM

Will do. -Best, Robert

This is not specific to AP mounts, so please forgive me if this isn't appropriate here. I figure this is a pretty sophisticated group that may have some answers. I will also post this to CN but the SN

Quick question... For a mount like the 1100 with encoders, what is the difference between issuing a Park command vs Home? I can of course Park to various positions under the Park tab. I can set some a

Hello fellow astronomy enthusiasts, It's my very first post here :) I recently had the pleasure of using my new AP Mach2 equatorial mount for the first time during an astrophotography session, and I m

Thought I'd share mine too. I wish I had Bortle 3 skies like Nikita to take a gorgeous broad band image like he has, but I have to make do with Bortle 6 and scrounging for whatever clear skies the wea

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I've brought this up before, but at least when using my ZWO ASI2600MM, no matter what the camera's gain setting is in Sequence Generator Pro prior to using APPM, the gain setting will end up being 0 w