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Looks like Russel and Greg were right; after ensuring that the camera was square with the focuser the instant star elongation was gone. Having said that I still got elongation starting at 8 seconds. For months I have been having tracking problems, and cracking noises in the R.A. shaft.
[they've stopped]. This time the massive drift is in Declination. How can this be when I got the P.A. down to single figures of seconds? with the P.A. stars inside the centre square of my reticle. The Go To with this mount has been very poor and inconsistent from day one. The target is sometimes outside the F.O.V. of my finder, let alone a low power eyepiece. I have been using EQ mounts for nearly 60 yrs, and imaging for nearly 50, and have never experienced anything like the 2 1/2 yrs since I got this mount. When everything was greatly improved using a borrowed hand controller, I thought I'd found the problem. Got a new V.4 controller; first night all was great; after that all went back to how it was before. Looking through my diary I've done 109 sessions with this mount, and in only 11 of them did everything work as it should. That's 98
forty five minute setup and aligns for absolutely no result.
To cut a long story short, I am now in a state of despair, and am stopping imaging before I go insane.
raymo
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