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Re: New Roll-off Observatory

dan kowall — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:42:17 GMT

Hi Dennis, Long time no hear. It's time to fire up the airplane and take an up high image of the roll-off like the one that you had of the dome. My

Re: New Roll-off Observatory

Hap Griffin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:16:29 GMT

Now you just need a warm room. It's the best thing I ever did designing the new observatory to have an environmentally controlled room attached to the

New Roll-off Observatory

Dennis Persyk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:15:54 GMT

My Igloo observatory (10' ProDome) has been replaced by a Backyard Observatories http://www.backyardobservatories.com/ 15' 6" x 15' 6" roll off. I now have

900GTO notification has begun

Marj — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:09 GMT

The 1st group of 900GTO notifications went out yesterday. We sent e-mails and letters based on our notification process. Please be sure that your spam filters

Re: Problem with900 GTO

Pawel T. Lancucki — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:39:39 GMT

Hi all Lose gears seem to be a pretty common topic. Maybe we should take some sort of countermeasures, like locking the little set screw with Loctite (or I

Re: Best way to Adapt AP900 to a Meade Tripod????

Joseph Zeglinski — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:06:10 GMT

Fred, An easy and quick solution is to purchase the Losmandy (MA) Meade Adapter - heavy aluminum short pipe stem about 8 inches tall. This makes it look like a

Best way to Adapt AP900 to a Meade Tripod????

fherrman@... — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:17:27 GMT

I built the top of my pier to look like the top of a Meade Tripod. In other words I have a 1/2" bolt welded to a 6" steel plate. I also machined an adapter

I think I just answered my own question and came up with another...

fherrman@... — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:17:14 GMT

It looks like I'm going to need the Losmandy MA Adapter and the AP LT2APM. Would someone please confirm this or suggest a better method. All of my OTA's are

Re: Problem with900 GTO

John Downing — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:27:28 GMT

Thanks to all who posted for their assistance. When I inspected the R/A gearbox the gear was so very loose I wonder that the mount was even able to slew.

AP Command Center

uthin8er — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:51:02 GMT

Any update son its release?

Re: New AP1200 Pempro question

James — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:28:37 GMT

Ray - thanks for the explanation! I had also experienced similar odd behavior until I had begun reversing what I thought was the direction being pointed out

Re: New AP1200 Pempro question

flyrcairplanes — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:49:23 GMT

Thanks Ray. Spent last night getting it set up and Pempro did a bang up job once I learned my left from right:) Jeff

Re: Software controlled Meade Zero Image Shift Focuser

Howard — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:45:48 GMT

Hello all, I am answering both an ap-gto post and a private e-mail with this response. Texts of both e-mails are below for reference. The FOCUS Connector

Re: New AP1200 Pempro question

Mark Galiyano Jr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:41:19 GMT

Jeff, I have used the PEMPro routine many times, and have also had the same experience from time to time. I still find the PEMPro routine to be the fastest

Re: New AP1200 Pempro question

Ray Gralak (Yahoo Groups) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:10:16 GMT

Jeff, ... It's best to adjust the mount based on the clockwise/counterclockwise instruction because the East/West direction is ambiguous. For example when you