Since I had this screen open for the last message thought I would share my latest image courtesy of my 1100. This is SH2-308, the Dolphin Nebula, at 540mm with an ASI6200, about 35 hours combined of O

Ray, I have just encountered a new problem with APCC. When I start it up and point to the east with a model, it always in the past said Tracking - custom. Now it says sidereal. It appears it is not us

Greetings Everyone, I have been fortunate enough to purchase my second AP mount. I already have a 1600 and I just received a used AP900. First of all I want to indicate that I am thrilled at owning an

I have just ordered a new AP1600, with delivery in a few months. I need to sort a pier out for this mount. I have a 10" AP field pier which my AP1200 sits on atm via the SPA. I believe the AP1600 will

Is there anything about the way APCC creates a model that is affected by the camera - I have two cameras - an SBIG ST-10 (mono) and a QHY 268C (color) with different image scales. Would they need diff

anyone have any experience with large Donut in image as to where is it is occurring? have included animation to show strange intensity variability and with features within the donut. ----- Forwarded M

Are the andersons plugs used on the power cables supplied by AP for their mounts 15A or 30A. Thanks

Ray, I currently have APCC 1.9.0.11 installed on the computer that I had so much trouble getting APCC to work when it was a Win 10 computer and I tried to install 1.9.2.5 Beta. But I was finally able

Ray, after all the trouble I have had getting APCC up and running with Eltima and Serial to USB adapters, it appears I have one last problem (I hope) with APCC now trying to communicate with the temp

Hello guys, I am planning to purchase AP mount. at first, i had in my mind to purchased 900gto. I came to know that this mount was discontinued. so i am going to find in used mart something like Amart

I recently purchased a second Powerwerx 25 Amp Variable Voltage power supply. I am running my 1100 mount and camera off of one of them, and the dew heaters and laptop off of the other. I have had a fe

Hello Astro-Nuts, Some of you have asked about our participation in astronomy conferences in 2022. We’ve debated this long and hard and have finally come to some conclusions. For a variety of reasons,

To all you PHD2 Experts, All the guide manuals and all the advice out there says that calibration should be done on the celestial equator at the Meridian line. Well, my neighbour has a huge spruce tre

I understand that this may be off-topic but thought I'd ask anyway. I seem to get a graduated level of noise in my images. Clear at the top and more as I go down. It is consistent across all filters.

I see others have had similar issues in the past. I'm doing a full sky model for the first time. I usually just do dec arc models before a run since I have a semi-permanent setup. I'm seeing odd behav

Did a search and couldn't find any info on this. If using an APPM tracking model (with Mach2) should the "Use Dec compensation" in the PHD2 advanced Guiding option be on or off? This is not the backla

I came across this unit at a recent video presentation and was very intrigued. This is my single biggest challenge in using my really nice instrument (AP900/127mm refractor). They list a few AP mounts

What does this error mean? I have an 1100GTO with encoders. I just put a new scope on it so it's possible I did a 360 in RA or DEC. I tried a 360 clockwise in DEC, turned off the mount and APCC, and t

would someone please provide guidance or past experience on this? Shooting Sh2-254, Ha bin 2, large donut appeared on the edge of my images that covers about 33% of the image, with about 60% of the do

New mount user here What are the Phd2 settings for this mount. Appreciate your reponse