Hi folks, I was lucky enough to be notified recently I’m going to be the proud father of an 1100GTO mount. I have read through the GTOCP4 Operating Instructions as I plan on how to connect the mount t

Hello Astronuts, To clear up any confusion about mount encoders, both Mach2 and 1100/1600 use the same Renishaw RESA high resolution encoders. The main difference is that the ring diameter of the 1100

I have a question about when to use the Clutch Knobs vs. the Gearbox Release Levers. I currently have a Mach1 in my observatory and when balancing or moving the scope to different park positions I typ

Here's a little lesson learned tidbit that I just discovered on my 1100 mount: I have been noticing lately when setting up the mount with my 180 EDT that there is some play in the dec. axis. I thought

Notice something new with my autoguiding, Maxim DL,APCC pointing model setup upon initial guiding during startup. thereafter it doesn't happen. The DEC axis tracking error grows up to about 2-3 arc-se

Not a goto mount but my mid 90's 600E stepper motor hand controller has an intermittently sticky north button. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Taking the cover off the controller it seems straightfo

With the lousy weather this February I decided to reprocess a couple of images taken back in 2011. Can't get decent skies this week or next according to long term weather outlook. This image was taken

“BAM!” 😎 Pete

I would like to have some details about the best way to package an AP1100 and would like to know how Astro-Physics ships it. Does it originally come in one or more boxes? What are their dimensions and

One of the methods to polar align a mount I have been using is to run a Tpoint model using The SkyX. For my AP1100 GTO. I have dialed down the elevation or Alt but not AZ yet. Tpoint's polar align hin

Hello Since I installed APCC Std update v1.8.8.14 (which was working wonderfully well just before), I systematically get comm errors leading to fail capture sequences in SGP. Slewing works fine. Cente

Hello all, i have this fantastic new telescope, a Skyvision Cassegrain Newton 300, mounted on my faithful AP900 with CP4. My gear is located on a terrace that is long but not very large, only 1,20m be

I thought we were supposed to hear about it here? Well now we know. It does seem though that a 21% price increase is a bit excessive no? Yikes...

Hi Roland, Did you have any issues with the encoder performance during any of the recent very cold nights? I know you use the standard temperature encoders, and it seems the recent arctic blast would

Hello Everyone, I'm looking to purchase a 900GTO that was built in 2009. If I purchase it, I'm wondering if there is anything I should do maintenance-wise, such as grease the bearings or anything else

Hello, I cannot be sure about our QuadTCC working with your scope to produce no reflections. However, i do know that our 130 field flattener will work and produce zero reflections. It has been designe

Hi, Our Mach2 arrived last December. We made a tripod adapter to put it on a TAK wood tripod, and a counterweight shaft adapter to use our existing counterweights. Now it’s ready to go. We are having

I am ordering the 1100 with extended temp encoders. I currently use the 900 on my Rob Miller TRI36M tripod that has the FSA top which is currently attached to the 900RPA which mates to the 900. Is the

Seems since the last APCC Pro update, as a time reference only, the connection on the remote system at SRO on the AP3600 has become unstable often not making a connection or connecting to the IP addre

Due to trees, my Mach1 is currently between a fence and a wall and I dare not slew because of the risk of a wall crash. Not a problem because I can manually slew RA then Dec then RA to get to my targe