... taken remotely with our new camera and imaging software down in Chile. https://www.astrobin.com/wfuoxn/0/ Rolando -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics

Howdy fellow Astronuts, It was fun doing imaging in the pristine skies of Chile, but I'm back now at AP working on 110 GTX scopes. This object, SH2-124 with surrounding nebulosity is extremely faint a

NIce one Chris! https://www.astrobin.com/m71f8m/ -- Brian Brian Valente astronomy portfolio https://www.astrobin.com/users/bvalente/ nature portfolio brianvalentephotography.com other astronomy https:

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

Oops, forgot the link: https://www.astrobin.com/full/pqx629/C/ Roland

Congratulations on your new installation. It must be immensly gratifying for you and the A-P team to have completed the upgrade despite the dreaded fan vibration. I thought the camera fans had been ex

At NEAF, talking with Karen, it seemed pretty clear that I shouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a new mount lighter than a Mach 2 anytime soon. So I now have a 2012 Mach 1 headed this way via UPS grou

Hello Astronuts and ZWO users, Please see attached images of how these rubber mounts are attached. The back of the camera comes off with 4 screws. It's just a round plate, and only the fan is attached

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

After 8 years of continual use the 1600 mount spur gears showed no wear that I could see. In the second picture you can see the worm teeth which along with the worm also showed no wear (left side is t

Hi all. I just picked up a 2009-ish vintage 900GTO that hasn't been re-greased ever according to the previous owner. Are the only instructions for this the ones included with the AP kit? I may order i

My 1100GTO is now a 1100GTO-AE. Yeah! Installation was straightforward. Software update (personality change) went without a hitch. The one minor issue is that I can no longer install my PoleMaster cam

Here's what it looks like up on the mountain. The area is extremely dry, there are no trees for hundreds of miles. It's typically very clear and dark with sub-arc sec seeing. The winds can be a proble

Pictures showing the scope and the camera setup with the two filter wheels. Rolando -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics

Hello fellow Astronuts, As you all probably know, Marj and I just returned from Chile where we serviced our remote telescope at Las Campanas observatory along with Mike Long another member of our LCRO

This is my first message to this group. I received my Mach2 a couple of weeks ago and on two occasions it has starting slewing without any input from me. In both instances, I was testing features indo

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

Springtime has sprung ! The few imaging nights I had available gave me this view of Messier 94, also know as the Cat’s Eye Galaxy. My goal was to capture the faint large outer ring. No supernova, but

Hi, Have moved to a long FL C11 from my Stellarvue 130 (FL 2800 versus 931). So trying to make sure I have optimized guiding as there is less margin for error... bigger stars. I have gone down various

Taken over the last new moon weekend. Telescope was Televue NP101is Camera QSI wsg 540 Mount AP900 Filters: L, R, G, B, Ha Exposure about 5 hours Processed in PixInsight I processed the stars and the