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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
It's usually the backlash/gears that are the "problem" ... I find if an object starts to drift, then just hit the direction button in the direction of the tracking and see if it stops. It should, as the play has been taken out of the mechanism.
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Yes, on my father's LX90, whenever you manually drive to a target, it always helps to "approach" the target in the same direction as the telescope will track, to get rid of the backlash in the gears.
If you approach from the other direction, the scope will seem to sit still for a couple of seconds while the gears "absorb" the backlash before it starts tracking properly, and in that time, your target can drift out of view when using a medium to high power eyepiece. If you have to approach from the "wrong" direction, it helps to "overshoot" a little bit, then nudge back to the target in the correct direction of tracking.