I have a new in May of last year 900 GTO. Not long after I received the mount I had a dec motor stall. Roland kindly instructed me to remove the motor cover...
My Mach 1 behaves well, goto and tracking are excellent, but I cannot balance it with any load on the mount. With no load it is stiff to turn and when I load...
... Chris I have a 900 GoTo same vintage. I happened to me only once on the second or third time I used it. I have the same power supply and haven't had a...
Yup, www.l-com.com is the place to go. They also have covers for USB and other ports. That's where I got the covers for the data ports on my "AstroBox"...
While imaging the region of the trans-Neptunian object 42355 Typhon in Leo (RA 11:09:29 DEC 05:34:15) at UTC 2009-04-28T02:09:31, a strange trail appeared on...
Hello Dick This looks like a cosmic ray passing through your CCD to me. Best Regards Peter Starr To: ap-gto@yahoogroups.com From: RSastro00@... Date:...
Thanks Don. I'm pretty confident that it is not the power supply. It's tough to troubleshoot as it has only happened 2 times in almost a year. Recreating...
I decided to reprocess my data from last weekend since it is rainy this weekend. I used a different method this time: DeepSkyStacker (free program) for the...
This is another image from last weekend that I reprocessed today. Again it is rainy this weekend so this gave me my astro-fix... Taken with the AP180EDT f/9...
Hi all, I am using an IOGear Bluetooth serial adapter on my AP1200. I can be powered via pin 9 of the DB9 serial port and I'd like to do so to eliminate ...
In a message dated 5/2/2009 8:09:43 PM Central Daylight Time, ... No need to balance the Mach1 to any high degree. The motors are quite strong and can handle...
Hi Gerald, One more thing: the clutch knobs on the Mach1GTO have spring loaded tips. These tips can still apply a bit of pressure even though the knobs...
I'm not sure about the image scale, etc. but I've seen a similar effect in a raw image frame that I've taken. It was an object in earth orbit; in particular,...
I used my mach 1 yesterday to view the sun and shoot some pix with a canon 5dmk2 I had a Stellarvue 90 triplet, coronodo 90 mm filter set, and a coronado...
... ASCOM 5 does not touch any existing drivers. It does not contain any drivers. Drivers that are installed by 4 are virtually guaranteed to be old and more...
Hmm... I was advised last year by Ray to use the 4.x ASCOM set (when I installed PEMPro). Perhaps the problems that existed then no longer live, but, version...
Thkx Bob, that's what we did, we had to download the latest drivers from the ASCOM site. We always power up everything and Recal the mount before starting the...
Thkx Chris, and to someone else who made their ASCOM 4.1 Download available. This is the rout we're going since we've been unable to resolve the ASCOM 5 issue...
Hi Chris, ... Sorry, I meant to reply to your earlier post but I got sidetracked. ASCOM V5 has now matured and I recommend that new users install V5. At the ...
Hi, Last night I began the initial checkout of my new Mach1 mount (purchased in 2008). I set it up with a small 60mm scope and st402 guide camera so balancing...
In a message dated 5/6/2009 2:37:13 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Yes, there is a fix for you. You could avoid these questions by simply calling AP (ask for...
Hi Roland, I talked to Howard. I understand the fix. It should be no problem. I wasn't panicked, but thought I may have missed the fix. As usual, the AP...
Hi Roland and Howard, I did some subjective testing of the Mach1 with a light load and roughly balanced. The tracking logs were the best I have ever seen in a...
Hi Joe. You did not say if you tried slewing to an object using TheSky or the MaxIm telescope controller. If you did not try either of these, maybe you should...
Hi Shane, I spoke with Howard at AP to get some information on current draw on the GTO-CP3 I was going to grab a connection off the 5.0 Volt regulator on board...
... Joe, please don't take this personally... To everyone: This is an example of a software developer's nightmare. Platform 5 was released to support...
Bob, Thkx for the pointer about the Sidereal Tracking checkbox, I'll look into it. However, I believe the initial intent of this thread is now Moot. Mark's...
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