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Originally Posted by stardust steve
hi Greg. I was doing my version of what I thought was tracking haha that was to press the 8x RA drive on the hand controller then hit the shutter. I tried both the left and right RA directions including 4x and 2x speeds. I also tried doing the same in DEC to see if that would change anything...it didn't. I have never tried tracking imaging really before and I believed that was how it was done. Maybe not  . The mount is a eq3 with RA and DEC motors and I was using just the rings with the piggy back thread to mount the camera. I have read people guide by looking through the EP and counter the drift that way. I may try that way? So I thought I was tracking but no matter which speed I used, the results were the same ? back to the old drawing board haha  |
Not familiar with the Eq3 but the hand controller sounds like it might be similar to one that I have on a second hand Eq5. Is there an N OFF and S switch up the top left? If so. Simply flick it to S and it should be tracking (as long as you have it plugged into power). The 2x 4x 8x and those other buttons are for manually moving the mount around. When you flick it to S if you put your ear up close to the mount you should hear the motor very slowly moving. You wont notice any movement by eye. It is very slow. Hope that helps....