[Startrek (Martin)]

Steve,
The mounts probably tracking ok at sidereal rate but your polar alignment is way off causing drift and elongated Stars
Apart from PA at least you found M8 , framed it up and captured a respectable image
Just need to tighten up your PA and you should be off and running ....


I’ll send a bunch of procedures from setting up the tripod and mount to polar alignment again

Any issues using them just let me know

Hope they help
Cheers
Martin