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Re-coating depends on the current quality. I have seen mirrors much older than 10 years and they are still in good conditions. Often mirrors are just dirty so a careful cleaning with alcohol and distilled water is enough to get a great result. It's hard to say anything about it without seeing the mirror. Could you show us a photo from your mirror? Michael

Are you running the programs with admin rights? From time to time, running them not with admin rights, it causes strange behavior.

Hi Waldemar, Thank you for sharing the details. That looks like a great and stable solution, I think we will go with it Regards Michael

Thank you all for your responses I thought it might be easy like a plug and play replacement. There is no certain reason for the upgrade to USB 3. Most stuff is still USB 2 but I made the experience that USB 3 is more stable than USB 2 and since my CCD is running on USB 3 and I have dismounted my RC for doing some improvements, I thorough it could be a good idea to use this chance to upgrade. @Waldemar I think I will go with your solution. Have you also connected the mount directly into the DS600 so that your PC is controlling the your DDM? What are you connecting with the Lumberg 8 connector? Regards Michael PS: @Vaud welcome

Hi, Has someone done an upgrade from the original build in USB hub in the ASA DDM 85 to a newer one with USB 3.0? If yes, which one have you used? Thanks Michael

Hi We currently have a problem with our dome automation but I need to do a new pointing file. I know there was a setting to tell Sequenz to manually confirm before doing the next image. Please can some tell me where I can find it? CS, Michael

Nice image Mark

I still think that the Wiki is a great idea but to be honest, the wiki often can't be reached or it took ages to get the page loaded. I'm sure that this is the main reason why it's not used more. Maybe we can improve this and see if something change. What do you need to get the Wiki faster? Best Michael

Hi Thomas, thank you this was what I was looking for. BR, Michael

Hello, I need some help with this problem. I want to center an object on the ccd chip by clicking on the image to tell the mount move telescope here. It is working, but it always moves the telescope too far. I think I have to give Maxim the information about CCD chip pixel size and dimensions but I can't find the correct place to enter them. Thank you Regards, Michael

Hi Luke, we still trying to solve the problem with Jacek, but sometimes people who are own the dome are fast or have better solutions for problems

Hello, does someone use a ScopeDome Dome and uses automated dome tracking so the dome follows automatically the scope on a bent pier? I'm having some poiting issues that the dome is not checking on which side the telescope is facing the sky. Any ideas to solve this? Best regards, Michael

Hi Chrstian, I'm using Win 7 64x with the latest Ascom and the latest Sequenz and AutoSlew Versions. Since I took away the the admin hook, everything is running absolutely perfect and smooth. I made a complete all sky Autopoint with Sequenz and 110 Images and it worked great. Hi Christer, I was not able to make any connection till I removed the hook for starting AutoSlew as Admin. I'm running the latest build for Sky X Prof. and still had this issue. Perhaps Philipp Keller know what the problem could be. He recommend to start Autosew and Sequenz with admin privilege. CS, Michael

I found the damn problem which took me two perfect nights DO NOT RUN AUTOSLEW WITH ADMIN PRIVILEGE!!!! I remembered that I read that it is suggested to run Autoslew with admin privilege to avoid trouble. So I configured the program to start always with this. In fact, this made the trouble. I put the hook away and everything was running without any trouble. Not sure if I should be angry about my self or being happy for finding the solution. I think I will make the decision tomorrow when I see if there are stars or clouds above my observatory. Regards, Michael

Hello, when I choose "Generic hub" I get the error Failed to load driver: "Hub.Telescope" Any idea how to solve this? In the meantime I have uninstalled Ascom and made an new install with Ascom 6.2 but nothing changed AND WE HAVE A GREAT PERFECT SKY!!! :( BR Michael

Hi Dietmar, I used this manual, but it doesn't work. It get this error:Failed to load driver: "Hub. Telescope" Any idea what it is? BR, Michael

Hi Thomas, Need to test it with direct connection. I used Win XP before and it was working very well. Perhaps this will solve the problem. Regards Michael

Hello, after a few years I had to make a new Windows installation of my control PC my observatory. It seems that I have forgotten to do something very important because I can't connect The Sky 6 or The Sky X with the mount. All latest updates are installest, also the Teleapi driver. As telescope I have selected "Telescope API" in Sky 6. In the settings I tried it with every entry but I always get errors like this This are my possible selections. Any idea why might be the problem? I'm sure I'm just missing something. Regards, Michael

Hello, we have the oportunity to be a small part on an ESA project which makes it necesarry to track satelites. I did it ages ago and it seems that I forgett something. I'm connecting The Sky X Prof. with Autoslew, choose a Satelite click on tracking, the scope moves to the satelite bit it doesn't follow it. When the slew is finished, The Sky show me this error: "This command is not supported: Error = 11000" I have no idea why it doesn't work. Is there a other way to track satelites with the DDM? Any idea welcome BR, Michael

Hi Wojtek, hmm... I think you should make a reinstall of the latest AutoSlew Beta. I have installed it too and it's working very well. No problems with it. Michael

I don't know if it's absolutely necessary to get an ASA original pier, but it's definitely a master peace of quality. As far as I know, we have the biggest version ever build of this pier and it's working very well. Although it's so big, you can make an exact alignment to north and level it. To get an impression of the size, I'm 1,81m

Hi Max, I would really recommend to use a webcam with night vision when using your observatory remotely. A visual check will give you more safety in unclear situation. Such webcams are not very expensive anymore, I'm using a 40€ cam which can be tilted in all directions. Regards, Michael

Hi, currently I was creating a complete error description with screenshots etc. and I can't explain it why, but it's working suddenly perfect. Hmm.. I don't know why and what happend the socpe is moveing as it should. I like it when porblems got solved but I don't like it when I don't know why and what the solution was I'm connected remote to my obs, but I don't think that this was the solution. I still hope that the problem will not appear again, but next time I'll come up from the beginning with much more precious description. Regards, Michael

Hello, I have the problem that I'm not able to move the mount with Maxim DL 5. Maxim is telling that I'm connected but when Maxim is telling the Mount to move 1 deg. nothing happens. The buttons are also grey. Does somebody have any idea what the problem could be? Best regards, Michael

Hello, has somebody already tested the new version of Pinpoint 6.0 with Sequenz? regards, Michael