Cheers Chris. I appreciate it, thank you.
Do you mean the stars are a little fuzzy as they seem at least roundish to my poorly eyes
The 2nd is a screen cap of the DSS live stack showing the dust/detail I had missed noticing previously, being laser focused on the "bright colours" aspect of the target.
I was guiding
getting about 0.7 arcsec total (EQ6R) I naively expect that's OK-ish, am I mistaken? When I cull I'm quite strict now with eccentricity usually grading (WBPP) to about 1/2 to 2/3 (statistically) on that alone. FWHM and star count are the other criteria. I'm trying to keep the criteria simple enough to make obvious changes and see obvious results. I intend to progress to more sophisticated grading once I get my head around "things".
I think I may have a little bit of tilt still and have messed with it a bit. I got it to "better than it was" and will give it another go when I can find the energy to - so fiddly.
I definitely have major backlash in DEC and manage it with imbalance. One of the adjustment grub screws is seized and I don't want to snap it or the allen key (already bent an allen key). I've tried every penetrant I can find/concoct but I fear I'll have to disassemble the dec axis and give it a little kiss with a blow torch to get it loose. Not looking forward to that.