I've been running my club's domed observatory for a while now and one of the things I've added is a large machine/tooling dust cover to the setup while it's not in use. It's breathable (there is alway

Question for the power experts. I'd like to start learning how to use my rig but I don't want to fry it or my children in the process. I have a refractor, cooled cmos camera, OAG with guide camera, el

New AP1100AE and novice imager so I am pretty sure I caused this, but would like to understand how and cannot find it in the logs... Woke up a hour or so before dawn, rolled over and connected the pho

Hi Ray, Just installed V1.9.0.9 and running APPM again. The RA Delta figure getting larger and larger with every plateslove and then its fails. Im using ASTAP and NINA which working perfectly last wee

If I were to renew now, for example, would it be 1 year from today or one year from the end of my current license expiration?

An issue with my RA axis has developed with my Mach 2. Everything starts off fine and then I begin to notice egg shaped stars across my whole image and are elongated in the same direction as RA. It do

There was a thread recently that suggested AP was looking into changing the licensing terms to allow transfer of an APCC Pro license with the sale of a mount. Was that change ever implemented? I'm get

I have an updated keypad with my Mach2 but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get recalibrate to work. The only Keypad manual I can find is the one from version 4.19.3 and a LOT has changed

Looking for theories to explain occasional dumbbell star images in unguided exposures. I have a long standing variable star monitoring project run through DC3 Scheduler. Recently changed from a C11 to

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share a few images taken with the AP1100 and C14 at about 0.1 arcseconds/pixel. The planets were tracked for several hours and lots of data was recorded with the best frame

I have been getting a lot of what I suspect is field rotation in my guided images so I thought I would check my polar alignment using the RA Correction method as described in the manuals. I have a por

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The rain event that I documented over on the AP-UG appears to have also impacted my mount. When I attempted to slew the other night I got a motor stall error on DEC, followed by DEC axis starting a sl

Hello Astro-Nuts, As many of you know, we’ve been gradually growing our team to meet the high demand for our products. We’d like to introduce you to our two newest Astro-Folks, as of this week: Eric i

Hi I have run into this three times lately. The AP driver is set to connect automatically as is the mount in APCC. However, the mount has not yet initialized. Seems to maybe stop if I automatically se

Brand new A-P customer here. I'm sure I'm doing something stupid. Any help is much appreciated. Am installing / setting up the AP V2 driver / APCC Pro for the first time. Also plugging in my Mach2 and

Fabulous! 😎 Pete

Hello All, There is an issue with APPM in APCC Pro v1.9.0.9 that is fixed in this version. This fix only affects users with licenses that have the Realtime RADec feature (Pro licenses, dated August 1,

Hello, I have a nice new camera attached to my Mach1 but I failed to check the balance before messing with the camera. The scope is now way out of synch with what I see in ACP. I have run the ACP find

Im looking at putting in a permanet pier for my AP1200. I have the rotating pier plate attached to my portable pier atm which I wish to keep on that pier. What is available to mount the AP1200 onto a