Is there any harm in leaving my Mach2 connected all the time in my observatory? Never turning it off? Preston

More experimenting now that I have a functional mount and a place to leave the Sweet 16 set up. Love it! These are some test images of the Dumbbell, with and without the 0.75 focal reducer/field flatt

Hello All, Need some advice here. My 1200 mount axes have been attached for about ten years, no oil or grease used (didn't read the manual thoroughly!). Any suggestions on how to separate them without

I am able to run the Ascom V5.50.003 installer program and it alppears to install fine. when complete the shortcuts to the A-PJog utility, the RAPAS utility, the Timer utility and the Setup Telescope

Hello, I am trying to build a dec arc model to work with my Mach2, but I haven't had much luck till now. I am probably making some mistakes somewhere and hope Ray and others can highlights some of the

Hi, just seen a strange behaviour with my mach2. -mount connected to NINA and guiding, mount connection through USB -I tried to connect an ipad to the CP5 access point and realized tracking was stoppe

Hi! I have started looking into solar power sources for astro-imaging. I don't when, but one day I plan to travel towards the pole with my gear, that will become very handy... I see some interesting c

Hi everyone, NGC 6951 is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy in Cepheus, not far from the more famous Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) and from the Iris nebula. It is surrounded by IFNs, and I was surprised t

Is there a way to retrieve the GPS data to feed in the GPS status tab in APCC Pro. As currently it is blank. Best Peety

Hi, I have updated my hand pad to version 5, so that I can test the new Orthogonal Model. When I have slewed to a star I moved it to the center and press enter. I sought that the mount has to move to

Hi All, Was able to get out for a nice night under the stars. I captured a wide field shot (image radius of 3.67 degrees) using the Mach2 unguided with 120 second exposures. https://www.astrobin.com/f

Hi! Ok I wanted to share this with you guys! I am sorry I am still waiting for my Mach2 (I am hoping to receive it in August). This was shot with my future previous mount. I hope this post is appropri

I used specs for the 140 sent to me from TEC using catalog values for the glass index. Using these numbers the distance for best focus across the field calculates to between 98 and 99mm (add 1mm for f

To all, Some of you who use a keypad with their Mach 2, and who recently upgraded the keypad to V5.010, have noticed that the "Modeling" tool disappeared from the "Tools" screen. We determined that th

I currently using a set up with TCC quad with imaging train consisting of TEC 140,night crawler focuser, QHY filter wheel, OAG, QHY 600 camera. I used precision parts adapters to be sure that I the re

Well, since the big announcement wasnt a newly designed 400GTO... I decided to try and find an old one! It's on its way and will arrive early next week. I also picked up a CP3v2 so I can use APPC with

Hi AP team and users, My RA guiding has been pretty poor recently on my AP 1100 AE. I inspected the axis and discovered that it has some “play” when the axis is parked. I tried adjusting the gearbox b

Hi everyone, I just updated my CP4 and keypad so that technically I can now use the Point+Track model. Since it is recommended that an external planetarium program be used to create the model, I'm won

Well we all know that with this hobby if something can go wrong it will. Today I went out to try and rebalance the scope before I would mess with the backlash and low and behold, both clutches were co

Some questions about the Mach1GTO and Dec Arc Tracking: Is it possible to use enough points in the dec arc model to get the Mach1 (with PEC) to do 15 minute unguided exposures? If so, how many points?