hello everybody, As I’m a newbie please forgive me if my question seems weird. I have created a pointing model thru APPM And APPC PRO. My Mach2 mount is connected to my laptop with an ethernet connect

I was imaging unattended last night and this morning I found the mount stopped (not parked) in Park 3 position with many communication and low-power errors in the APCC console, which stopped the imagi

This particular camera came with a front adapter that is not quite large enough ID to fully illuminate the corners. I did not bother to take a flat, but it is definitely needed. There is approximately

Stupid error on my part - A too-long cable connecting the Telescope-top computer to the female USB 3 connector on top of the Mach2 got caught and when it pulled out of the through-the-mount connector,

Inspirational work Roland! 😎 Pete

Hi Astronuts, While trying out the new ZWO 6200 MC Pro color camera that George graciously lent me, I was rummaging around the early evening sky trying to find something bright and colorful to image.

Roland has stated on multiple occasions that using a separate guide scope is not the ideal way to do guided imaging because of flexure. How much flexure is considered excessive ? I believe that it was

Hi Astronuts, For those who are interested, I have posted 6 new images in my Astrobin gallery in the last 2 weeks. Some were taken at our remote observatory at Las Campanas in Chile. One was taken her

I recently received a new 1100GTO-AEL and I've been reading all the documentation and getting ready to set everything up for first use. I am a bit confused about some language in the GTOCP4 manual reg

Hi All, I’m having problems with my AP1200. The CP3 is updated. I have a large model that suddenly won’t sync. Tonight, after I slew to Vega it was off by several degrees so I centered it with the han

Was using an older Dell, "upgraded" to Lenovo because I needed USB3 for my ZWO camera. Now mount won't connect. Using APCC Standard and USB connection. I get "No response from mount" Swapped cables tw

I just finished my new observatory in NW Texas and this is my first image there and with my new ZWO ASI2600MM mono cmos camera. I am so excited to have a permanent observatory setup ready to image at

I'm going to use N.I.N.A below as a stand-in example here for automation software, but I saw similar issues with other automation software I've tried in the past. Ok, so I found out last night that I

Hi Deonb, Thanks for sharing the photos of your rig. Very impressive. Wanted to ask just a few questions about your rig: The mirror locks on your Edge 14 appear to have been converted from the pointed

Hi, My Mach 1 seems to have a default Park 3 position and I want to change it to Park 5. This is evoked when the shutdown script in ACP runs telescope.park. This cannot be changed in ACP. I do not see

This is a link to a gallery showing details of my observatory: https://pbase.com/rchozick/image/171730847 If you click on an image it will go back to the gallery of other pictures. You will see that t

Hi Roland, Can the Mach2GTO (with AP 16" EAsy balace dovetail on Eagle 6 mount) comfortably handle the below OTA and image train - C14 Edge HD OTA Additional Losmandy Dovetail bar on top of OTA C14 ed

Hi All, I have 2 independent imaging systems on my AP110AE that have their own independent computers. I did this because I have imagers from the same mfg on both systems and was having serious driver

Is there an ETA on when there might be some encoders available for those who want to upgrade their mounts ? I am on the notification list to get encoders for my 1100 mount. Mike

Hi all, this aimed at users of APCC and NINA; specifically those who are using the current development train of NINA, version 1.11. I've been working with another NINA contributor on a plugin for NINA