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Managed to get out for a couple of hours last night.
The polar aligning was much easier with this EQ mount than with any of my previous SkyWatcher mounts. The azimuth and latitude controls are so easy to operate. I used drift alignment.
I used my Lodestar guider through the ST4 port and to my surprise apart from an initial "spike" it seemed to guide OK. ( 8" RC operating at 1200mm focal length )
EQMOD worked perfectly no problems with it at all.
I thought I would try some unguided exposures ( Canon 1100d and 8" RC at 1200mm FL)
Got as far as 2mins and the cloud rolled in.
At the moment I am collimating my RC - not quite there yet.
2min image below.
John
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