Hello, I would like to drive an AP 3600 via alpaca and AV2 ASCOM drivers V5.50.03. everything works fine, but I can't adjust the "move rate" speed in alpaca axisrates reply maximum speed 2.5. and maxi

Both Encoder lights are blue and the voltage is steady at 13.5. Attached is an example of a 60 second exposure during the rocking. An ideas? Thanks!! Steve

I think I am going to try and mount my Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm with my C11” where I am currently using a piggyback design with an 80 mm. My set up requires it to be in park 4 in my ROR observatory fo

Hi Friends, While I am trying to step away from backyard imaging, I did some testing of gear the other night and got about 3 hours of data on the Iris Nebula in my LP rats nest of a backyard. Iris Neb

I’ve been very fortunate to build a permanent observatory to house my setup with my AP1600GTO AE with pretty good skies. The downside is its location near the wild southern ocean with sea mists and he

Hello guys. I am sure with all the knowledge on this group you could be of help. Subject: Mosquitoes. When I get bit the area swells up without even scratching it. I hate them but they love me. I've t

Is there a common denominator for motor stall? I was out observing Jupiter this morning and every once in a while, the RA axis would jump westward a few degrees and then there would be motor style. I

Is this. This is an unresponsive pile of trash. While I know this isnt AP specific, I mostly talk to you all these days, and this change is NOT good for users.

Ray Gralak was kind enough to reply in another post about model features in APCC. I have some additional questions and thought that moving them to a new thread might make it easier for people to follo

Tony, While I cannot speak to the effects of fogging, my mosquito control consists of using a few fairly large potted citronella plants. On observing nights in my backyard, I’ll set the bunch of them

The A-P web page for the 130 GTX indicates that the focuser that comes with the scope is an A-P 3.5” focuser, and that a digital focusing system is also available for imaging, but I see nothing anywhe

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 all, I am a purely nomadic imager for now and have been using fast reflectors so far because they are cheaper and faster (quite important for cloudy PNW), but something or the other keeps changing/

This concerns the Mach2GTO. I'm in the northern hemisphere. I woke up this morning, and I found out that I didn't get any data after my target passed the meridian. Sequence Generator Pro told me that

Well, I couldn’t wait until my son comes over tomorrow. I decided to try it myself, and was thrilled to find that, despite having just turned 77, I could wrangle the components of the 1600GTO onto the

Hello, after many months this is my last image. NGC 7023 , acquired on a AP Mach2, self built corrected newton 200mm f 4.5, and a moravia C3 61000 pro. Some plate solving setting made impossible to us

Hi everyone, I have an AP900 with a CP4 mounted on the dovetail above the RA axis. Since the CP4 protrudes a bit at the rear in this configuration, I was wondering whether there's enough clearance to

I have never dithered before, but it appears NINA supports it when connected to PHD2. Has anyone ever done this with the Mach2 and NINA? Is it really needed, or does it help? Todd

Despite taking all the precautions for the fist power-up of the barebones 1100GTO-AEL, I end up pinching a though-the-mount power cable in DEC axis as shown. Clutches were as they come form the factor

I own an AP1100GTOAE and just recently I’ve been getting repeated errors on startup that APCC fails to connect to the Dec encoder. If I tap on the small black Dec encoder housing with the small led, i