After a summer of little time for astrophotography and my main imaging rig undergoing a near total reconfiguration to accommodate a QHY600, I finally was able to get a few sessions in over the month o

Hey all, I’m having this issue with my AP1100/APCCPro and SGP. This was posted to the SGP forum, but maybe I’m doing something wrong in APCC that is causing the issue. Here is the story: Recently I’ve

Hello, I'd be grateful if someone can show me the best way to power my nomad set up (Mach 2, Pc, CCD, FLI atlas, HUB Usb, fa, kendrick, etc) Basically I am thinking to use the brick power unit that ca

Hi, I have the CP4 and have set the guide rate to 0.5x. It is set this way in each Ascom driver as well. I am using APCC standard. I understand that I should use a guide rate of 0.5x. However, every t

That's extremely nice. Rolando

Very nice rendering Dale. Amazing image given the sky conditions! Wonderful to see the imagers employing capable methods and equipped to overcome dismal lighting challenges. 😎 Pete

Wonderful image and title! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😎 Pete

Hi everyone, I wanted to share our latest results from using the our AP1600 with absolute encoders, doing unguided with APCC/APPM model This is from last night's run, we used 900second (15 minute) ung

Hello Astronuts, Had a very transparent night with good seeing last night and captured this creature: https://www.astrobin.com/full/obgxze/0/ 17x600 second sub-frames, unguided using the keypad Drift

I have just upgraded my 1100GTO by adding the absolute encoders and last night I tested it out for the first time. I ran a pointing model, a modest one to start, 33 points. After this I had the tracki

Hi Ray & George Since a few days I have an blocking issue wit my AP1100 AE : when I try to slew I get the error shown in the file attached below and the slew is not performed !!(its a pity because the

Hello, I'm waiting to receive my 130GTX scope (Several weeks) and I currently own a 1100GTO mount. Once I receive my scope, my goal is to mount all of my hardware for connections on top of the OTA. Ba

Ray, I apologize for the interruption but my “Comm Events” indicator has gone pink. When I open it, it reflects that every 3 seconds an error repeats that says “Sent: ‘:m#, Error: The operation has ti

Congrats Tony! I think Moose needs a custom heated saddle for the Mach 2! 😆 Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjWX7rna20 I received a couple packages today from AP :) tony

Is anyone using their mount for satellite tracking? I am starting to go through the Horizons manual. I am interested in amateur radio satellite tracking in particular. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astropho

Just downloaded APPC 1.8.8.1 and am running APPM using a camera simulator and not plate solving. Each image returned by the simulator (of M42) is in a separate "APPM -- Camera View" window. Shouldn't

Hello all, I am announcing the availability of a new release build of APCCPro and APCC Standard. These builds fix the timeout error caused by sending the ":m#" command. APCC Standard download: http://

Hi everyone, All of a sudden I am getting COMM ERRORS when I start up APCC Pro. The mount won’t move. I can park and I park however. I was running ASCOM 6.4 and then updated to 6.5 SP1. Getting errors

Hi, I have a simple question, first I have a 11000 mount, guiding with a 50mm f5 Borg and a Starlight Express Costar. Using either the Sky X or Maxim for camera control, if anyone is using something c