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Originally Posted by Startrek
Arrived at my South Coast NSW dark site yesterday and assembled my new SW12” Goto base unit in the garage. This new base unit didn’t have external clutches like my old unit however the Altitude tension movement was fine with a Paracorr coma corrector and heavy TV 21mm eye piece. The existing Collapsible OTA fit like a glove.
Set up the scope this afternoon as forecast was for clear skies. Completed a 2 star alignment, 2nd star Procyon ended almost bang in the centre of centering eye piece.
Selected about 6 targets ( stars and nebula ) across the sky and each target ended up close to centre of the eye piece.
Also performed a couple of Park to Home which ended up spot on.
Slewing was smooth / quiet and rate changes in Alt and Az were perfect. Shut down and packed away when that big bright moon popped its face above the horizon.
All in all a great test night for the new base unit. Glad to have my 12” scope up and running again after 5 months.
Thanks to Skywatcher, Testar and folk here on IIS
Martin
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G'day Martin. Great to hear that your issue has been sorted and you are back out observing again
