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Thanks for the response madwayne

It’s all learning so no complaints – could have done with some more sleep but (my boy gets up bloody early everyday and he only wants his dad to deal!!)

Regarding doing the drift using the DSLR, the camera is connected to lappy and I am using the Camera Control Pro 2 software to show the Live View (I should have explained myself a bit better instead of saying LV) on the laptop screen. Works really well and magnification is plenty (12” newt using a 2x Barlow so 3000FL). Might investigate other software options later but for now Live View is all I need as I can use the zoom for focus (actually last night picking a double worked well for focus as I had the two side by side) and at the normal view I can orient the camera to the mount axes and use the grid lines for E/W and N/S. You can see movement of the star in seconds and the process worked well last night (adjust mount – move star back – rinse/repeat - only worked on azimuth) it’s just a pity it never resolved (i.e. the star just kept drifting down until I ran out of mount movement which had been huge so something was not right – thus the request to clarify camera orientation and movement needed.

Regarding tracking in sidereal – I am assuming it was (as I used goto to get to the drift star and it was tracking – sidereal is the normal tracking type yeah?). The drift at the 3000FL in live view was pretty obvious whereas say in the finder it took awhile for the star to move off center. I have trees to the North so was using a star a little to the east so not sure if that makes a difference so maybe next time I will use a higher (clear the trees) north meridian star.

Regarding Starry Night not sure, I am very PC literate (yeah a nerd) so I did all the usual thing (update ascom, celestron drivers, reinstall com drivers etc.) but nothing. Will try the mount from the main PC at sometime as well as using some other software on the lappy to see how I go.

Last night was a bit of bugger really – lots of time spent and it seems I didn’t actually do anything.

Early days……