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Thanks Martin. Yeah, she was pretty well all over the place with all the gear I need for autoguiding. I know it overloads the mount by having the heavy guide scope and DSLR hanging out the side which makes it hard to balance. What I do now is manually point the scope in the direction of the object I'll be photographing and get the balance right for that position. I then swing it back to home, which is way off balance but the clutches hold it where it needs to be while I do my star alignment and GOTO settings.
Once it slews to the object, in theory it should sit there nice and happy in it's balanced position. Crude but it works. I got fairly good guiding in bad seeing enabling me to take 3 minute subs at 800 iso with the Deep Sky filter. Not bad for a focal length of 1000 mm sitting on the lawn! No wind that night which helped.
Last edited by Mickoid; 31-03-2020 at 08:41 AM.
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