Hi I received my dovelm162 saddle plate for my new ap1100 and it appears that the springs are too short. If I put the saddle horizontally, the clamps hang down into the way of the telescope dovetail m

I've been running my club's domed observatory for a while now and one of the things I've added is a large machine/tooling dust cover to the setup while it's not in use. It's breathable (there is alway

I have a 1200, and use the SPA Standard Pier Adapter <https://www.astro-physics.com/900spa> to mount it on my concrete pier. The pier is 12" diameter, but reduces to 10" at the top, and the SPA attach

Im looking at putting in a permanet pier for my AP1200. I have the rotating pier plate attached to my portable pier atm which I wish to keep on that pier. What is available to mount the AP1200 onto a

Hello Ray, I have a slight "slop" (similar to backlash) in my RA axis when I apply light pressure in rocking the telescope back in forth, which I believe is due to insufficient mesh between the worm g

Question for Roland. Did you try the big AP175 on the Mach 2? I am pretty sure I remember the 160 in the tests, but can't recall if the 175 was ever attempted. Bill

Was imaging last night with my Mach1/CP4/APCC Pro mount and when it came time for a meridian flip, the flip didn't occur at the time indicated in the NINA sequencer and several minutes later the mount

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Today I got the chance to take my AP1100 mount out of the wrappings and set it up on the pier. The altitude bar was completely loose inside the RA-axis box and managed to produce some deep scars on th

I'm trying to finally use APPM. (with nina). I updated my license. (106.00 is there sales tax on a license?) anyway. I start the Point model and after the first exposure. I get this error. Invalid flo

I managed to get 6 x 20 minute H-a exposures with the 10" Mak Astrograph on the fully loaded-for-bear Mach2 mount. All exposures were unguided and stacked in MaximDL. Processed in Maxim DL and Photosh

I was notified yesterday that my Mach2 is shipping this week. I am excited. I tried unsuccessfully, to find related threads as I am sure this has been asked before, but please indulge. Can one of you

When using Dec-Arc tracking for unguided imaging I presume that using PEC is absolutely necessary and that using the mount's native periodic error (ie no PEC) won't give decent results. Just wondering

Amazing! 😎 Pete

I'm part of a group at Lowell Observatory tasked with acquiring a new 1 meter-class telescope and instrumentation to replace one of our older research telescopes which is no longer viable to maintain.

One side of the model much better than the other?

Hello all, We want to announce the availability of APCC Pro 1.9.0.7. The changes include a couple of minor fixes: 1. APCC Pro - Fixed - APCC can once again launch APPM and plate-solve+RCAL to the conf

My Mach2 to it’s making some strange sounds (vibration) when moving to the Home position. It happens in the dec axis moving counter clockwise (north) for the last 15-20 degrees. It will happen with di

Hi all, I am looking for some clarifications regarding the interactions / interoperability of the Ortho Model performed by the Keypad versus the pointing model created by APCC? The questions I want to

The first question to ask is if the TCP Server checkbox is set in SkyX to allow remote connections. ________________________________ Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 9:32 AM To: main@ap-gto.groups.