Hello guys, I am planning to purchase AP mount. at first, i had in my mind to purchased 900gto. I came to know that this mount was discontinued. so i am going to find in used mart something like Amart

I recently purchased a second Powerwerx 25 Amp Variable Voltage power supply. I am running my 1100 mount and camera off of one of them, and the dew heaters and laptop off of the other. I have had a fe

Hello Astro-Nuts, Some of you have asked about our participation in astronomy conferences in 2022. We’ve debated this long and hard and have finally come to some conclusions. For a variety of reasons,

To all you PHD2 Experts, All the guide manuals and all the advice out there says that calibration should be done on the celestial equator at the Meridian line. Well, my neighbour has a huge spruce tre

I understand that this may be off-topic but thought I'd ask anyway. I seem to get a graduated level of noise in my images. Clear at the top and more as I go down. It is consistent across all filters.

I see others have had similar issues in the past. I'm doing a full sky model for the first time. I usually just do dec arc models before a run since I have a semi-permanent setup. I'm seeing odd behav

Did a search and couldn't find any info on this. If using an APPM tracking model (with Mach2) should the "Use Dec compensation" in the PHD2 advanced Guiding option be on or off? This is not the backla

I came across this unit at a recent video presentation and was very intrigued. This is my single biggest challenge in using my really nice instrument (AP900/127mm refractor). They list a few AP mounts

What does this error mean? I have an 1100GTO with encoders. I just put a new scope on it so it's possible I did a 360 in RA or DEC. I tried a 360 clockwise in DEC, turned off the mount and APCC, and t

would someone please provide guidance or past experience on this? Shooting Sh2-254, Ha bin 2, large donut appeared on the edge of my images that covers about 33% of the image, with about 60% of the do

New mount user here What are the Phd2 settings for this mount. Appreciate your reponse

Hello all I recently established meridian limits for one of my imaging configurations. Shortly after clear skies afforded me the opportunity to test this feature. My target was Pickering's Triangle in

Brian and Ray, dang it all but I tried using only USB and it now works. Thanks, Ray, for persisting and you too Brian for pushing to use usb. Interesting when using the adapter, it selected Com 3 and

I've been using a ZWO ASI2600MM for some time with no issues except that I was noticing that the gain would mysteriously change from 100 to 0. It was very frustrating, because I would often find that

Hi The reason I ask is that I have 3 temperature sensors on my telescope. One is the VBox, one is the thermocouple from a Moonlite Nitecrawler and one is a high accuracy sensor called SensorPush. Last

Ready to do battle Mach2 with 10"F6 Mak and an oldie but goodie 130F6 Starfire: Rolando

Ray, in doing further troubleshooting trying to get APCC working on my win 10, I went back and installed version 1.8.8.17. When I did, it asked me if I wanted to install Eltima and I did. I no longer

Hi folks, I could use a bit of help please. I have a permanently mounted AP-1600 with encoders and have been using it with ACCP and ACP for several years. I typically run time series on cataclysmic va

Hi I have an AP1100 without encoders which I received 3 months ago. I am fairly new to APPM but was able to run a model of 200 points. My ultimate goal is to take 5 to 10 min subs unguided. I would re

Ray Is it still advised to uncheck pointing correction in APCC-Pro after creating a Dec arc tracking model in the case that potentially large numerical errors in the Dec model may effect pointing? In