Hi Gil, I suspect that you entered your location information when Auto-start was set to "yes". Whenever you do this, you must set auto-start to "no", then...
Well I do have a permanent setup and have been operating without problems since last June. I think it has stayed on Auto-start since day one. I'm impressed...
Gil, Hmmm. Nevertheless, please try what I have suggested. Clear skies, Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc. 11250 Forest Hills Road Rockford, IL 61115 Phone:...
Roland, Thanks for the reply. I'll be sure to set dec backlash to 0, it's currently 1. Where do I set minimum on-time, is that is the STV or the mount? I'll...
In a message dated 1/31/2003 9:44:28 PM Central Standard Time, ... LST means local sidereal time - the same as the RA value directly overhead at that moment. ...
In a message dated 2/1/2003 12:12:35 AM Central Standard Time, ... GMT is Greenwich mean time, and it will only co-incide if you have entered time zone zero. ...
In a message dated 2/1/2003 10:52:58 AM Central Standard Time, ... The mount always knows where it is. If you put the wrong time zone in, it will still find...
In my original message I typed up all the settings in my controller so there would be no confusion. The time zone was set to 7. But from what Marj said, the...
In a message dated 2/1/2003 11:47:17 AM Central Standard Time, ... The mount is the slave. It has no min or max anything. It has to follow the commands of the...
Roland, I tried the setting on the hand controller last night to 1x and the mount did not guide perfect put it back to .5 and guided perfect again. Setting on...
Here's what I did tonight to fix the time on my controller: First I powered up and looked at the Time menu and it said I had it set to LOC: 1. I went to the...
There is no minimum setting in the ST-V parameters, only a Max Correction setting in the track menu. So either there is no min. or SBIG has one hard coded in...
Although I felt I had plenty of data on this one I didn't feel the best with it's outcome. The luminance layer is a total of 3 1/4 hours and the R, G, & B...
The STV output pulse has a minimum of 20ms in the latest firmware release. Previous versions of the firmware had a 30ms minimum. So at 1x guiding, the minimum...
Gil, ... It was using the default values of zero. ... Yes, that is correct. Clear skies, Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc. 11250 Forest Hills Road Rockford, IL...
... Mike, This is an extremely interesting number - to me at least! Do you know what the STV does when it "sees" that a correction of something less than 20 ms...
I'm fairly certain that it just ignores the correction. I've had previous discussions with Matt about the operation and that is how I understand it. Mike ... ...
Hi all, You just gotta love AP products ! Last Saturday night things came together nicely for this deep shot of a peculiar galaxy with the AP155EDFS/AP1200GTO...
Quite a site Daniel. I do enjoy the wide field images you fellows with the refractors post. Thanks, Steve ... From: Daniel Verschatse <antilhue@...> ...
I am looking to make several extension cables: 1) a extension cable to go between my AP600 Goto mount and the control box GTOCP1, approx 8 feet. 2) an...
... If you have the USB Version of the SBIG Camera you can put all things together in one box and xonnect this with a icron adapter via one Ethernet cable to...
... Can't help you specifically here.. though thee connectors used here would appear to be the same family as is used for the keypad. See below. ... I can help...
Excellent Louis! Nice job on the cables. What kind of wire did you use for your Keypad extension? Thanks! Chris ... Ref=33802&Row=153454 ... (07).jpg ... ...
... I used some 4-conductor control cable I had lying around. It's actually two twisted pair, #18AWG stranded per conductor. It is almost certainly overkill,...
Impressive shot for sure. I notice a hint of elongation in the stars to the right of the zoomed-in image. Are you using a field flattener? Rick. ... of ... was...
Thanks to Steve and Rick for the kudos, Rick, the out of round shape on some of the brighter stars is due to my sloppy bloom correction. Should have spent some...
Dean, I got mine a couple of weeks ago, and just finished setting it up this afternoon. Jim ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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