Jeff, Those are for positioning to RA/DEC coordinates. Legacy features, from back in the day when mounts of this design were manual, or just clock-driven. No worries - just ignore them. - Bob

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Ram, Section 4 may help you: https://espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MAIN/files/User%20Contributions/EXOS2PMC8_TuningNotes_v2.pdf - Bob

Don, FWIW, I have the PMC8's cables, camera power and usb(s), and heat strap cables to manage. I bundled a couple of groups of cables in lengths of loom (link below), used zip ties to provide tether p

Hi Jerry, Thanks! No worries, that was intended as general, even if it didn't come out that way. Your arm remains untwisted! :-)

Dino, I spent some time a few months ago, digging around the ASCOM support forum, looking at developer/support posts, trying to understand why people were having trouble with Device Hub. I think that

Gokhan, Not sure what you could do about that - any solution would be constrained a bit by the casting material and mount base itself. But... if bending is a problem, that just says (to me, anyway) th

Kevin, When I was using my refractor for imaging, my rule was basically: balance first, then bias weight to RA: East-heavy and DEC: camera-heavy. For the 130, I've carried that forward as East-heavy,

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Kevin, We do have members here using both larger and longer-FL scopes successfully, so it can be done, but with this mount's hardware, technique will play a role. I'm just switching up from a 4" refra

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Welcome, Ross!

+1 Can confirm. I kept expecting POTH buttons to be intuitive, so something else must be wrong... Nope! Whoever designed that functionality did not do it for simple souls like me, and I have given up

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Nihar, I can't comment on NINA/APT, as I don't use those. However... You should switch to cabled connections for guiding. Basically, wireless is for convenience, and cable is for reliability. What we

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Thanks, Jennifer! Yes, yes it is an adventure, and this is just a simple F5! I did have a small dob, a couple of decades ago, but this is a different world. There was some clear sky here a few weeks a

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Wes, Thanks! No, the FL is almost the same, so that shouldn't be a problem. My venerable SV 102EDT is 621mm (without reducer), and the 130P-DS is 650mm, with a 1.0 coma corrector, so almost the same o

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Jerry and Wes, Just wondering if you have any advice re: the driver's Pulse Guiding tab, post-upgrade. I had been getting along pretty well with 75/75/75 (RA SRF/ DEC SRF / Min Pulse), prior to the up

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Nathan, I doubt you're pushing the limits. While ES initially aimed the mount at the light and simple end of things, owners have had a good time pushing the limits as an astrophotography mount, which

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Nathan, Starting a new topic about your specific problem is the right thing to do. Astrophotography is a tough hobby. Lots to figure out...hardware, software, technique, environmental conditions, suit

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Good! It does have an FTDI chip, right?

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Vlad, No need look at the logs. Wireless is convenient for visual users, but for astrophotography users, it's a "siren song", best avoided. I'd suggest that you get a serial-usb cable with an FTDI chi

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Carsten, You're most welcome - glad you were helped! - Bob

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Peter, That's a surprise! Are you showing that the worm block was not sitting flush despite being fastened down, or something else? Here's a candid shot of mine, from a bit different angle - no room f

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