I've noticed I have a small amount of drift with the tracking of my EQ6 and I've put up with it so far as it didn't really bother me, but as I've been experimenting with imaging more recently it's become more of an irritation.
I've timed the drift of a planet across the FOV of my planetary camera and by my calculations the object drifts off by about 1' per minute.
Given this is a popular mount and lots of people use them for imaging, I was hoping you helpful folk out there would be able to give me some tips as to where I should start adjusting the mount to reduce this, with the objective of being able to keep a planetary object in the FOV for longer, and to allow me to take longer exposures of DSOs.
I've recently performed a belt mod on the mount and the drift is more or less the same as before. It also seems to do it more or less the same regardless of which scope I'm using with it, but is more obvious at higher magnifications...when I've been imaging Mars at f/25, it just about stays in the FOV long enough to capture a video sequence
Any suggestions welcomed and appreciated
