I had the same problem -- ES sent out (2) longer screws. Ask Kent (customer support).

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Slowly narrowing things down - so far, pretty much ruled out any issues with ASCOM and PMC 8 driver. POTH ASCOM manually flips and slews/parks correctly. I loose that manual flip control though when e

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Here's Leo's Triplet shot on the evening of Leap Day 2020. What a difference when shooting at a Bortle 4 versus my home location Bortle 8-9. EZ PZ to process comparatively and much less gradients to r

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Thanks for your insight Mike. Yes, I'm balanced on both axis. No unusual noises coming from the mount. I have no problem returning to Park before I do a plate solve, it's when after I do a solve that

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I've been struggling with AMF in APT, I haven't performed a successful automatic flip yet. Before I uninstall and re-install ASCOM and ES drivers, APT and my astro software, I just want to make sure t

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Hi Jed - My rig is very similar to your setup and the additional 3rd weight works great and is the best solution.

Here's one from this past moonless weekend (1/26/2020) - hooray! Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. 48 x 300s @ iso3200 w/ 2" L-Enhance filter, WOz61w/ FF 40 x darks, bias, flats

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Here's one of the Monkey Head Nebula NGC 2174 from 1/7/20. I hope to shoot this one broadband when the moon goes away and using a broadband LP filter. First time using the Azimuth adjuster with the iE

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The Azimuth adjuster for the iexos mount's stock tripod works great! I tried it out for the first time last night. It's now even easier to get polar aligned (with Sharpcap). I just had to get used to

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Taro - what filter drawer are you using? Thanks!

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Just a heads up, dSLRs are not supported with Sharpcap. I hope I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure...

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Thanks Taro -- I think I got the FF backspacing correct now. Here's a first light image with the WO Z61 of the Triangulum Galaxy from this past weekend (CLS-CCD filter). I'm interested to see if I can

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Thank you Taro

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Here's a recent one from 12/7/19 - with the best guiding I've achieved to date Heart Nebula from a Bortle 8, US east coast 20 x 240sec lights, 20 darks (APT, CDC) iExos-100, Canon t2i (ha modded), 12n

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Rosette Nebula 11/9/19 Canon t2i Ha modded, w/ CLS clip filter, Pentax 300mm prime iExos100, unguided, 30x150s lights, 30 darks, 30 bias Bortle 8, 89% moon APT, Sharpcap (ZWOminiguide scope w/ ZWO224m

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There are Android apps to prevent going to sleep -- I've successfully used one (I forgot the name and my tablet isn't with me) and my Samsung Galaxy Tab A stayed awake all night while Explorestars kep

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Thanks Steve -- I'm so green ... researching Meridian Flip now. It's been a mental list of subjects to learn about

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Last night's blunder ... I forgot to stop tracking when I started taking my darks :( Then found out that the body of my dSLR was hitting the bowl base of my tripod mount when I went to check early thi

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Thanks Chris -- I think I'll go with your type of setup. Seems like it would be easier to balance. Looks like I could just go with a long dovetail vixen plate and mount the guide scope/camera under sl

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Thanks Eric for your parts list - when you have a moment could you please take a pic of your rig from behind (as if facing the CNP, home position)? I'm trying to get an idea as to why you had to incor

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