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Strongly suggest you buy about 8 bottles of the spray on Exit Mould and a oodles of chuck wipes and a set of leather gardening gloves - works brilliantly for removing mould. I was gifted a dome that was covered in mould and gunk and about four hours work with hot water and that much exit mould fixed things brilliantly!
Secondly - the Max Dome kit works really well - suggest you will get most value from a backyard observatory with just the dome rotation kit (vs the slit open and close - which needs a new dome slit and motor. There is a long wait time on these kits and the instructions aren't well printed - so it worth while seeing one in operation and getting advise from someone who has retro fitted on recently - glad to give more feedback if that helps - did mine last year.
Next if your mount's rotation point isn't directly under the dome's rotation point - the East West offset parameter should have its sign (+/-) swapped for our hemisphere - the documentation is definitely wrong for our hemisphere.
Lastly the Mad Dome rotation software hub - the free version didn't work reliably - whereas the one build into MaximDl v5 worked fine - you need to plan what software will drive your Max Dome kit.
Once it all works well - and it eventually will - it gives you a great feeling of accomplishment - especially if your remote control everything from your house where its nice and warm!
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