https://www.astrobin.com/cnsikb/0/ Shot on Monday night on the Mach2 mount. Not the best transparency and heavy light pollution as well as smoke from western fires, but I did manage to capture some ve

Hi, I am a new owner of an AP1100 which has user-installed absolute encoders. I just polar-aligned my scope on a new pier and now need to set up limits. How do I prevent the camera end from crashing i

I am new to APPM model building for my AP1100AE and have used Tpoint on TSX for a Bisque mount which I have since sold in lieu of an AP1100AE. Can an APPM model coexist with Tpoint? Or should I not ru

I'm very happy that V1.9 now works with NINA and ASTAP. Model building was very straightforward and quick. For some reason, my unguided exposures have trailing stars. The target will move a few hundre

I am curious if PulseGuide is still supported and whether or not it will work with my AP1100 AE or my (yet to arrive) Mach2. Shailesh

I’ve been using the keypad with my Mach1 mount for a few years with no issues until last night when the third row of buttons < S > stopped responding. It was independent of the current menu mode (slew

Hi All, Per our recent discussions, I had a chance to image last night under fair to good seeing (3 out of 5 to 4 out of 5 on Clear Sky Chart). I'm doing 20 minute exposures, in this case M13, to test

With the new APCC, I have been unable to successfully complete a pointing model. I can slew to a star through APCC and solve successfully. Pressing the button “Plate solving and recal” will solve and

I have a new pier for my AP1100AE. I have adjusted the AZ position using PEMPRO for polar alignment. I am at latitude 38.6 degrees and according to the AP1100 user manual, I need to place the Altitude

Hi, I have an AP900 that I have had for 15 years. It has worked flawlessly. A couple weeks ago I noticed what I thought was a minor DEC backlash issue, so printed out the instructions and went to work

-- I run robotic projects on a 900 mount. Higher slew speed would increase system efficiency. Any thoughts on what the downsides might be to selecting the maximum slew speed, or contrarywise, what the

APCC v1.9 has a great new feature which offers "real time" (non-cached) modelled mount coordinates. This allows for closed loop satellite tracking (comparing the mount's current position to the satell

Hi How does one adjust cone error if you have no view of the pole and use a camera? Thanks

I got my Mach2 a couple of days ago! What a thing of beauty. However, I've encountered a problem. Although the ethernet connection works perfectly, the RS232 connections do not. With either of the CP5

I use ACP Scheduler to run a robotic variable star program with a 900 mount unguided. Tracking in particular with the longer exposures sometimes required is problematic and substantially impacts signa

Hit sent too early! I did a dec tracking arc run last night via APPM and ASTAP, and it worked flawlessly except for in one camera configuration. I have an ASCOM camera, Orion 26mp Mono, and if I set t

Hi All, I am interested in hearing how the new Dec-Arc feature in v1.9 works. I set up my mount for each session. I always know my object in advance of setup so I then run an abbreviated model which c

I recently cleaned and lubricated my AP1100 with fixed gearboxes. After some help from George to fine tune gear meshing, last night I was ready to create a new PE correction curve. I'll let the charts

Hi Ray, I have installed APCC Pro 1.9.0.1 and the command Send Limit with offsets to SGPro appears not to work any longer. If I change the Flip Offset, the meridian flip time in SGPro does not change

Ray, i have a couple of APCC questions. 1) What can i be doing to cause the PEC enable button to become disabled without pushing it from one night to the next? I always shut down APCC after every sess