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Thanks - i'm pretty happy with how easily it was done...
In truth the motors are not that noisy -
the azimuth motor can't be heard even at full speed,
and the altitude motor is only audible when slewing.
Your neighbours woiuld have to have extremely sensitive hearing
to hear it let alone be bothered....
You could use a quiter motor there, but since i use a sodding
heavy SLR for imaging, only the dayton has enough torque to
hold it.
Tried it out on saturday night when the seeing was terrible....
i am not brave enough to post the resultant Mars pic here yet,
but as far as the project is concerned my objective has been met!
Instead of having to edit down half an hours worth of .avi
to distill enough usable footage for stacking,
I managed to keep Mars in the camera viewfinder for 5 minutes straight before the clouds came and spoiled the party.
It is a bit harder to get the object in frame, but once there,
is is a snack to keep it there with the basic up/down and left/right
switches.
The altitude gearing is a tad fast, but not so much that
i am going change it.
Azimuth is bleedin perfect - once i had matched the sideways speed,
i only had to correct the altitude.
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