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AP Product Catalog Database 19

Hello Astro-Nuts, In recent weeks a few forum members have mentioned it would be nice to have a repository of old AP catalogs and offered to create a website database. This is a project we’ve had on o

Hello Astro-Nuts, In recent weeks a few forum members have mentioned it would be nice to have a repository of old AP catalogs and offered to create a website database. This is a project we’ve had on our radar but have not had time to dig into, so we appreciate this has been taken on by some of our Astro-Nuts. The website is here if you’d like to take a look: AP Product Catalog Database While you’re there, check out Tony Simon’s (aka Harley Davidson and Star Astronomer on YouTube) video of his catalog collection. If you have old catalogs and would like to add them, you can upload them to the Files section of the ap-ug group or the ap-gto group on Groups.io. They will be added to the database from there. I’ll pin this topic on the Groups Messages page so it’s easy to find. Many thanks to Holger Merlitz for creating the website and volunteering to steer this project, and all of you who have submitted your catalogs to the database. And a challenge: Can anyone find a catalog with the Hampden Ct address? Karen AP

By Karen Christen ·

wanted: Used AP130GTX with FF like new

Dear all I want to buy a used AP130GTX with good condition of optical surfaces and FF for astrophotography. If any lady and gentleman want to sell it, I will be appreciate him/her if inform :)) Thanks

By rezamohammadi1991@... ·

Comet animation 11

Hello all, I am relatively new to this group. I am attaching a link to a 15 frame animation, taken with luminance data with my AP 130 GTX on 1/27/23. The subs are 60 seconds each. Thanks for looking!:

By bgcombs44 ·

Photographing C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with the 6.65 Stowaway 13

Good Evening, I just finished the processing of a third session of shooting comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) which is gracing our skies right now. I am lucky to have had three shots at it, but was really worried

By Greg Vaughn ·

Last night comet C2022 E3 ZTF with my Stowaway 6

Hello friends! Last night the Comet was at its closes point to Earth, so I didn't bother that the Moon was close to the Comet just had to try to capture it! I used my portable setup: Stowaway, 92TCC r

By Ray ·

Alternative Sources for Custom Adapters 20

Does anyone know if there are any alternative sources where custom adapters can be made to order? Precise Parts is great as long as you can fit your adapter to the standard menu, but they will absolut

By M Hambrick ·

It's a cold one tonight 23

Hello fellow Astronuts, First really clear night in a month and that always means two things: Moon is full and it's bitter cold. The lack of clouds and haze means that the daytime air temperature will

By Roland Christen ·

Help For Beginner 17

My name is Ron and although I'm not totally a beginner, I feel like one since my experience over the last 23 years has been using only a Meade ETX telescope. It now seems like a toy compared with the

By Ron Filice ·

Autofocuser for 4" focuser 28

I have recently acquired a AP160EDF with the upgraded 4" dual-speed Feather Touch focuser. I'd like to set up an autofocusing capability. This is proving difficult. I'm looking for advice. Here is wha

By mjb87 ·

Moon occultation of Mars 11

Morning! It’s too early for me to be up! Mars had it’s dance with the Moon so I woke up and snapped a few pix. I’m going back to bed! 😴 Pete The Moon - Pete Lardizabal pplphotography.com The Moon - Pe

By Pete Lardizabal ·

Lunar Occultation of Mars 2

Hello, This event is limited to viewers in the southern states, some in South America, and Central America. Maybe worth the effort for those in the pathway. I’ll post pix if conditions allow. 😉 Pete

By Pete Lardizabal ·

[ap-gto] [ap-ug] It's a cold one tonight

I remember that night with the Traveler on the front steps. It was on an alt-az mount and we had to keep nudging it to keep the image in the eyepiece. That was an extra challenge to see all 6 stars si

By Marj Christen ·

Comet C/2022 E3(ZTF) Movie 7

Folks, Had some OK weather Friday night/early Saturday morning here in Central Florida. I captured stills of the Comet with the Mach2GTO + 130GTX + Field Flattener + EOS Ra. Attached is a 'movie', abo

By Shawn Quinn ·

SH2-200 (Sharpless 200) with AP130GTX and March1 GTO 5

Hi, First time post here, but a 10+ years AP customer and a very happy owner. I just would like to share my latest image with AP130GTX (with flattener) and the 10 years old March1 mount. Everything wo

By Kai Yang ·

Lunar Fun with the 130GTX 10

I originally purchased the ASI174 for solar. A couple of weeks ago, I thought I would give lunar imaging a shot with the 130GTX + 4X PowerMate and the ASI174. See AstroBin links below. I captured 1000

By Shawn Quinn ·

ZTF on Jan 28th 6

Here's another capture of Comet ZTF. Taken last night just as the moon set and before the clouds rolled in. The comet shows a thin ion tail and broadening dust tail. Currently around magnitude 5.0 nea

By Chris Cook ·

My astronomy page --reposted 2

Hi All, I've spent several days updating my website and I'm very happy with the result. I wanted to share it with you: https://elveteek.ch/astronomy It highlights what is important to me: spreading aw

By Carl Björk ·

New camera for deepsky imagingq 25

Hi, I'm in the market for a new CMOS (I would have said CCD not too long ago) camera to use with my AP155EDF for deep sky objects with my portable setup (on an AP900 mount). I might do narrowband, but

By Mark Manner ·

Comet ZTF w/92 12

I finally had a break in the clouds so I was able to capture my first image of Comet ZTF. Under my Bortle 4-5 sky, the comet was barely naked eye but in 7x50 binoculars I could easily trace a tail out

By Chris Cook ·

CP4 controller stopped working during firmware update 2

I have a CP4 controller that I want to update the firmware. I followed the instructions on the Astro-Physics website, but the update was not complete, and now the LED CP4 is off. Following the instruc

By Richard Hennig ·