A special nod goes out to the AP1100AE. I got about 50 hours of data on this, including 7 remote, and not one sub needed to be discarded due to eccentricity or trailing (a LOT of subs were discarded d

Hello, my name is Fabien from France, 2 questions : - First : I tried to connect for the first time my AP900 GTO CP3 mount to my new (updated) AsiAir Plus box. The firmware version of my CP3 is also u

I made a APPM model for my 1100GTO (nonAE) last week and ended up redoing the collimation on my 8"RC this afternoon. Just wondering if I need to redo my model? The scope has not been taken off the mou

Dear All, due to personal reasons, I have decided to put up for sale my AP 155EDT f/9 -- the very best of all the very many 6" refractors that have passed through my hands (AP, TMB, Zeiss, Takahashi,

Last year I acquired an older AP1200 CP3 mount, and upgraded it with the V2 chip to V4.19.3 Yesterday with moderate seeing, I ran the PHD2 guiding assistant and found out that the mount has approximat

Question: for systems (1600CP4/1200CP3) if they are run by computer only, do I still need to change the time in the handpad or will the control systems get the right time from the computer? And, if I

Hello AstroFolk, I had another clear night last night with good seeing, a bit hazy. Was able to image another wide galaxy field in Coma Berenices. I added this to the M100 image from last week to make

Hello fellow Astronuts One of the many things I did while "down south" is touring the 10 (and growing) roofs at Obstech. I was struck my how many Astro-Physics mounts there are there. Unofficially I a

I imaged the Leo Triplet using FLI 16803 on a TEC180FL (1134mm FL with reducer-corrector) sitting atop my 1100 with AE. The pixel scale is 1.66 arc-sec/pixel The PHD2 RMS is bad at 4 to 4.8ish RMS. On

I previously posted some questions about unguided imaging, or DEC arc modeling and finally had some chances to try it out at the Winter Star Party. I typically don't post images here, but after seeing

Hi all If you have any ideas ??? very strange My setup AP155/ Mach2 Regards, Alain

Image from last night using my AP900GTO mount. Dwarf planet Ceres passes in front of spiral galaxy M100 on the night of March 26-27. Ceres is about 13.3 light-minutes away from Earth while M100 is abo

You are certainly in heavily chartered skies with great result. -Best, Robert

Hello everyone, I am a brand new astrophysics 1100 GTO owner, and I’m having some trouble with the point modeling software and was hoping for some advice about correct settings. I use sequence generat

Rolando (et al), Below I've included a couple paragraphs you mentioned a while back on evaluating seeing. I'm about to try and generate some new periodic error curves for my AP1100 (no AE) and I thoug

Hello fellow Astronuts, I was going to post another deep sky image that I took last 2 days, but have hit a snag. I was going very deep field with it and discovered a fairly large bubble nebula near th

Now that it's official that the 110GTX did not discover a new PN, here is the image of Thor's Helmet taken yesterday: https://www.astrobin.com/irp1zf/0/ The PN at the top looks quite prominent, but is

So recently purchased an AP900GTO which should arrive me next week. So until then I won't get to give it a good go over, but seems to be in very nice condition. This will be my first AP mount, so I th

Roland, Spent some time looking through the larger image on my laptop… a mesmerizing image! 😎 Pete

You picture, I assume you wanted to share, did not post correctly