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Thanks for the encouragement Gentlemen.
After tonight I need it.
Nothing would work and in the end the mount stopped tracking, so I put the hand box back on still no go but happily a computer restart got things going again. After trying everything else first of course..power unit, cables, ..I thought the mount was broken.
Anyways went back to 60 second subs but at only 100 gain to see if that would work and after ages balancing things went ok but every now and then bad trailing... and dropped subs which is not unusual...finally thought I would let it run while I went inside to warm up ..came back and it seems there was cloud for 45 minutes...so I thought try the guiding with tips and backed things off went for three seconds and gently gently..on the basis the mount really tracks rather well so it should only need minor corrections..did a 10 minute that the bottom half was dropped but the stars that I could see left at the top were near perfect on close inspection.
Still on the Lagoon but I rotated the camera 90 degrees to achieve more desirable framing as this scope, unlike the Espirit 80 mm, rotates no problems.
So it is different data but I am learning a great deal.
Thanks again.
Alex
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