I had a clear night last night and was up late (for me)... anyhow I am about 1/2 way thru my next
seeingdouble and i am really enjoying this one
thats the end of the good news....
the bad news: I was doing my 2 star alignment, i started with sirius and was slewing over to taurus when cheryl called me in, "wait a sec" i said, but no it was urgent as we had a virus and obviously the computer was going to blow up... i figured that the mount would stop at its destination any how so i left it to see what was such a big problem... the norton said it had found a virus,had cleaned it up and it wanted a restart so i asked "have you restarted yet?", no was the answer.... in the mean time in the back yard i hear a grinding noise and recognise it to be what i assume to be slipping gears so inhaste i leave cheryl to find that the scope has hit the card table in its gleeful parabola across to tuarus!!!!
the scope slewed pretty well for the rest of the night but i dont know if it did any damage to the gears.
thats the last time i leave the scope unattended!
would this have damaged teh gears or anything else?
what do ya think?