I recently took over as Observatory Director for my club's observatory and outreach center. With COVID putting a halt on the in-person outreach events that we have done on a monthly basis (and hope to

I have an AP900 setup in my observatory and the pier is tall enough that I need the scope to parked in a specific position to prevent it from interfering with the roof (and also to point to the wall).

I looked at APCC while running remotely at SRO this morning and saw 93 COM errors. While the system is imaging successfully these errors are concerning. I have had many errors over the past few months

Hi All, I'm using the AP V2 ASCOM driver with SkyX to control a 900 GTOCP3 mount on a windows 10 machine. Does the AP driver support the 'pulseguide' option on the 'guide using' pulldown in the SkyX a

I have a question/clarification of the relationship between APCC and the ASCOM V2 driver for Ray or anybody who knows the answer for sure… My question has to do specifically with the initialization ph

Ray, I modified the sample horizon file you sent to me and now have the horizon for my location input into APCC PRO. But now I have a new issue. I have been using APCC Standard for years to control my

> On Apr 10, 2021, at 12:47, Bryan R. <bross138@...> wrote: > > I am a fan of Switchcraft DC jacks. They seem to be of much better quality than run-of-the-mill amazon stuff, bit easier to solder, and

Hi, I was wondering what was the conductor gage (AWG) of the power cable (6-ft) included with the Mach 2. There are writings on the jacket in what seems to be Japanese language as well as the number 0

I have been using APCC Standard for years to control my AP1600 using SkyTools PRO V3 and now SkyTools V4 Imaging. I have the mount connected to the computer using the Serial/USB connection on COM3. I

Hi Folks, I am a new Mach2 owner and am configuring my setup. I usually run completely off battery power whether imaging / observing from home or at a dark sky site. My question is: at what input volt

Hello All, There was a nice ISS pass yesterday. I tried to follow it with APCC horizon utility. I see the PC time as the most tricky parameter. In my case the mount was trailing the ISS by a bit. Obvi

The iPad version of SkySafari was updated January 15th to V6.8.0, to include the added A-P park positions and Home feature, . The Desktop version however until today had not been update to include the

Hi Everyone I'm looking for some insight. Last night while using my AP900 mount, my software was sending the mount to a location in the sky and I could hear the dec axis motor but there was no movemen

I am trying to get APPM to work with my 1100 mount. For reference, I have had success it getting it to work (different software installation, different computer) with my Mach2 mount. There must be som

Hello all. Just joined, 1st post. So I just purchased a second hand Mach 1. It was well loved, and that's a good thing btw, but I am trying to disassemble the mount 8n a feasible manner so I can get a

I was planning to use my new AP130GTX just for visual observing through the springtime, so that I could capture galaxies with my SCT, but it didn't work out that way. Part of it is impatience on my pa

Last night I used the tracking limit explorer to define meridian limits for the first time and the process worked very well. My question involves keeping track of the correct limit file across scopes

Testing new mach2 for a couple of nights. It works great out of the box and I am very pleased. One issue bothering me is that I got slightly elongated stars across the entire image (15min Ha sub). The

I want to get an early meridian flip and I try to set it to +3. It keeps jumping right back to 0. I have Enable meridian limits checked. Also override ASCOM. I’ve tried different settings on the enabl

3600GTO user here. We used to balance our scope by motor current measurements, which seemed a little bit more objective than doing it manually - the remaining friction with all clutches fully open is