Hi, Next year I am planning to get a 150+ lbs class mount, my first option is a 1600GTO. Are there any plans to produce a new 1600GTO batch in 2021? Regards, José

Marj & AP folks, Thanks for the software update. It updated fine, now running P02-07. Noticed a small thing during the update. After finishing the part 1 update, and then selecting the part 2 file, an

Hi It seems that even though the mount is parked at the end of the evening, and then the power is turned off, when the power is turned on, the mount automatically starts tracking. This is an issue for

Hi, similar to the (sometimes undesirable) automatic Tracking hassle on APCC start up, I dislike the fact that ANY GOTO command automatically turns Sidereal Tracking back on. Recently, I was doing som

I want to install APCC at my remote observing site. The PC is a two user PC so that two of us can use the scope independently at their assigned times. It's setup and running well with the AP V2 Driver

I upgraded APCC Pro, since it was telling me to. I did not upgrade the firmware in the CP4, since this can be tricky business and I avoid unless necessary. Now I cannot connect to the mount because th

My venerable 1200 has a large and consistent goto error after a meridian flip. It is roughly 2 deg in RA and a couple minutes in Dec, I haven't actually measured it. Very consistent, so in spite of be

Ray, Is it possible to give us some control over the warning message’s screen position? A few times, I would get a Limits Exceeded warning, and had no way to get back to the control Tab, to turn off i

Congratulations (once again!) to the NASA and SpaceX team on the successful launch of the Resilience Crew Dragon from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station this evening! What an incr

After watching Tony & Moose's most excellent video showing him unpacking his brand new Mach 2. I would like to know if the stainless steel insert in the counterweight shaft holder has been incorporate

I had a rash of clear nights with passable seeing the past week, so I managed to get 32 hours of data on the Soul Nebula 130GTX, Mach1, QHY600. https://www.astrobin.com/full/x6124n/0/

Let's assume somewhere between 1 and 2 arc-min of error. Will APPM correct that or does it need to be tighter?

First post to the group. Please be kind : ) I recently acquired an AP1200 CP3. Fantastic mount coming from a G11. There is no comparison. However, the hand controller keys are very dim. So much in fac

Greetings group, been away from observing for quite sometime so basically starting over. As mentioned I have an early to mid 2000 1200 gto mount, my question is what is the best upgrades that I can do

I've been meaning to do this for a while, based upon my brief experiences with my AP900 with this OTA (TEC 200ED) and long term use of another 1200GTO doing a GREAT JOB of slinging around an 8.75" F12

What is the latest estimate for shipping Mach2 hand controllers? Larry

Hello All, I've had the AE's installed for 2 weeks now and last night the scope was not pointing at its target. It was off by approx 20 degrees in RA. I tried a plate solve and it failed. I assume I w

Ray, Last week my observatory Mach1GTO got lost and the slews became corrupted, i.e. lost in space. Found that all sky solve with Maxim resulted in an error in APCC that indicated I was too far from t

There is a new build of APCC Pro that fixes the issue with a new window being created with each ASCOM camera image. You can download APCC Pro v1.8.8.3 from here: http://www.apastrosoftware.com/apcc_do

I'm liking that one Dale. I sort of like a bit more red in the image but it is very tastefully done in my book.