I like it Doug and I too have to come to terms with flats. The cats paw is a great little neb which is sadly behind my western horizon shed now. I got some good Ha last month but will have to wait a year to get the colour data now.
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Re. the backlash you mentioned. Any tricks? I have slightly loaded the counter weights and adjusted the worm gears so there is practically no play in the RA axis. Its driving me mental.