Hi all,
I recently bought a second hand NEQ6 Pro mount and a second hand 8" Celestron SCT. Thanks all for your invaluable advice and help, and especially for the advice to go second hand.
I just set it all up for the first time in the living room and took it for a bit of a test run. I am going away down the coast, into the dark bush, next weekend and am planning on having my first go at the sky. woohoo! Can't wait.
But I am a bit concerned about the noise the NEQ6 makes when slewing. The noise it makes when it starts to slew and stops slewing is a bit worrying. The noise it makes while slewing is what I expected, but the noise at the start and end of a slew sounds bad to me.
I made this video and uploaded it to youtube. Can any people with first hand experience with an NEQ6 mount please have a look and tell me if that noise is something to worry about?
I balanced it as per the manual instructions, pretty sure I got it right. Is there anything else I need to be concerned about here?
Thanks in advance for your time and assistance! Chin chin
https://youtu.be/gkO2PShWS9g