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Originally Posted by lesbehrens
is your scope balanced correctly. i have this problem at times.
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i believe it is correctly balanced. i is hard to tell however as the RA axis is so stiff it does not even move if the axis is unlocked unless it is grossly unbalanced.
i also considered this, thinking that if it were unbalanced and the motor was struggling to track properly. to allow for this error i deliberately unbalanced it so that the scope should bring the star back toward the centre. it did not help. the star continues to drift west only. it moves out of my FOV in about 10-15 mins while remaining perfectly between the north/south lines in my eyepiece.