As a new owner of an A-P GTO-AE mount with GTOCP4 and, as of a couple of days ago, a KEYVFK2 GTO keypad, I’m wondering how serious a need I might have for APCC and APPM. I’m not yet a serious imager,

Hellow All I have a Davis weather station which transmits my weather date to the web. has any one used a Davis weather station to update weather data on a AP mount specificly CP4. APCC. Clear Skys Jim

Hi I have not set up my meridian functionality in APCC pro, but would like to allow my AP1100 / scope to track about 15 minutes past the meridian to reduce waiting time for a meridian flip during long

I just purchased a 1200GTO with a CP3 controller that has firmware L. I have gotten the latest ASCOM driver talking to it and I see NINA can slew to targets and PHD2 can connect. My question what is g

I apologize for the n00b question but I it has been quite a while since I have used my AP1600 and I have moved the setup and now I am trying to complete my configuration. I have my AP1600 set up at my

Hey there, Astronuts! It's that time of year again, but if you have v.5.x of the keypad, you're in luck! This is a link to the V5 manual: The instructions are on page 31. Here is the entire instructio

Hi, During Fall and Winter, each time I bring back my gear at home in the morning after an imaging session, it is instantly covered by dew, including my AP900 that I carry in two parts (RA assembly, D

Had my first light with the new 1100GTO-AEL last night. Being a work day I only got a chance to unbox and assemble things late into the night, so I hadn't done fine balancing. Just after rough balanci

I've been imaging it in HA through this bright moon cycle and I'm here to say that stuff is really faint! I don't know whether the person who discovered this is a hero or a villain? After all the hour

I know I'm getting on in age. Sometimes I can't remember where the tool that I was just using 5 minutes ago went. So each year when I redo my polar alignment PemPro is somewhat new to me. However, wha

Hi everyone, I've a relatively new AP1100 (non AE) that I've had for about 2 months. About 3 weeks ago I had a pier crash where the dovetail contacted one of the forks. I'm not exactly sure how it hap

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Hi I have a 1 year old AP1100 (no encoders) which performs extremely well. However, I notice that occasionally after it slews to an object, or does a meridian flip, it can take 1 minute before the tra

Breathtakingly stunning! 😊 Pete

Hi My observing site is quite challenged. I cannot image a given object for more that 4 hours given trees and buildings. I also have to live with Bortle 8 skies and usually do narrowband. Of course ha

Hello all. I'm purchasing a used Mach1 as a "portable" mount and would like to keep setup simple. I'm hoping to image unguided with my epsilon 160 and possibly GTX130 using APCC and PEC. I have used a

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Hi Astronuts, The eclipse occured here at 1 am with the Moon just past the zenith. It was one of the darkest eclipses I have ever seen. Using my Stowaway with my Sony digital camera it took a 2 second

I want to track the moon for four hours so that I can get a smooth video with no jerks. I tried using APCC Pro, NINA, Horizons, and Cartes Du Ceil with strangely varying results. For, respectively RA

Excellent shots! 🙂