Hi all I am a nomadic imager and I separate the mount every time that I drive to a dark site. Is there any compelling reason to run the dec cable through the mount as opposed to juts leaving it out? I

Hi everyone I just finished 3 nights on these two clusters, M53 globular and NGC 5053 open cluster https://www.astrobin.com/hir3pl/C/ 9.5 hours of unguided exposure using the 2600mc osc camera on the

I'm trying to license a copy of PEM Pro we received with out 1100GTO mount. The software installs and runs in trial mode without problems but when using the license request utility with the software k

Hi, I did not post recently but did some imaging nonetheless. Here are my latest pictures (starting from the most recent ones). All with my usual setup: 8" f/4 astrograph with Zen optics and 2.5" Wynn

Hey Astronuts, Lowbrows and Buckeyes— I stacked the whole 4h of subs that I’d gotten on M101 for the SN and decided that it wasn’t a significant improvement on the 2h integration as far as illustratin

I just completed a new large modeling, about 238 points. Of these, two turned out to fail near my horizon, so I don't think that's a problem at all. My question is, just out of curiosity, is there any

Hi everyone I'm looking for recommendations on a 3D printer. I recently came across an impressive 3D printer project for a spectrograph so I've been thinking about this. I also have seen many great ac

Thanks to everyone for their kind remarks about my first attempt at imaging M106. I apologize for the double post; I walked away from the computer immediately after hitting Send, ond only discovered h

Hey Astronuts, Lowbrows, and Buckeyes (and all you BCCs)— I post this with some trepidation in the face of the fabulous images I’ve seen on these groups of the larger M106 field, which I’m going to do

I apologize as these are very basic questions -in the past week I have installed my AP 1100 goto in a permanent pier inside a Sky Shed Pod -that took awhile! Polar aligned and spent 2 nights using the

I think this is relevant to ap-gto… There is Astro-Physics gear involved! The local CBS SF Bay Area channel 5 KPIX news at 6pm just aired this story tonight about SN2023ixf. And… it’s already on on Yo

Just happened to get lucky in imaging M101 just days prior to the supernova event. Imaged with my AP 305RHA and a QSI683 CCD camera through LRGB filters. Here's a GIF animation of the galaxy a few day

What meridian settings do I need to be able to manually advance the meridian east by 2 hours so that any slews to a target within that limit will be CW up to avoid meridian flips during imaging? thank

Supernova happening right now in M101 https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023ixf Brian -- Brian Brian Valente astronomy portfolio https://www.astrobin.com/users/bvalente/ nature portfolio brianvalentephot

https://www.astrobin.com/full/4s8vvq/C/ Seeing was better, no clouds, very dark and transparent. Best focus had stars of 0.68 arc sec in a 2 sec exposure. Overall FWHM was 1.4 arc sec over the 23 x 30

Apologies for the basic question - google gives my GPS as: 44.0587411, -73.2623103. To input to APCC, I need degrees/minutes/seconds -when I used a calculator, it came out: 44 degrees, 3'31.467" and -

Hey all -thanks in advance for your guidance. I'm a long time visual astronomer (been using a 16.5 inch dob) but am in the process of setting up a Sky Shed Pod/pier mount with my new 1100 go to. It's

Hey Guys, I'm a new owner of a fabulous AP1100 mount that I know is going to be awesome, but some troubles with getting started. First, I'm not new to this game, been an amateur astronomer for 40 year

Hi All, I just posted version 1 [undoubtedly there will be multiple versions of this one] of the Sharpless 2-1/LBN 1092, 1093, 1094 and 1095 area surrounding Pi Scorpii. This is a rarely imaged area t

Will these two version play nice if ASCOM 6.5 is installed after ASCOM 6.6? thanks Steve Hoffman