Cheers mate. Would love to get a proper mount one day!
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Originally Posted by michaellxv
Hi Stefan,
I have the older 80GTL version and had similar problems tracking when I tried. Making sure everything is firm from the ground up helps but in the end the mount is mostly plastic and flexes and moves in the slightest breeze.
Visually mine tracks OK in that an object will stay in the FOV of a 10mm EP even though you can see it moving around that view. I have gone away for 30min and come back to still have planets in the view.
However, putting a camera on it is like putting a 5 or 6mm EP in, the FOV is very small and the drift will take an object out of the view. You can watch the Alt/Az tracking as it moves up then across, gets ahead then waits, gets behind then catches up etc.. The Sun and Moon are large enough that you can let it drift and then watch it come back, with planets you risk losing them. I was always making manual corrections to keep things where I wanted them.
Basically I found it very hard work and gave up having learned the leason that a good mount is required.
Best of luck with it.
Michael.
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