Maybe a stupid question?

[swannies1983]

With the EQ6, are both the RA and Dec motors supposed to be moving when tracking? I have an EQ6 + Astromeccanica motors (which has external pulley system connected to the mottors). Only the RA motor seems to be moving during tracking. However, if i press North or South button (at various speed rates), the Dec moves.

[[1ponders]]

An equatorial mount is designed so that there should be no Declination movement. Therefore the motors should only operate when you press the dec buttons or an autoguider makes a declination correction during imaging.

Only the RA motor should be running continuously

[swannies1983]

Cool, thanks for that info. I just asked somebody else and they said the same thing. Heart rate and blood pressure has dropped now :D