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Old 25-02-2013, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Logieberra View Post
Stuart, I am down in Ballarat over Easter - 10 days. Are you a member of Snake Valley and plan on visiting? That's 15 mins from us. Would love to help if possible. Worst case, could call phil back here in Canberra for phone support, he's darn good with the MX as well.
I'll be out of the country for about six months from mid March, so, thanks for the offer, but I must decline. The main problem is not being able to find a set of circumstances that brings on the failure. Take , for instance, Sunday night. Turned on the mount to cool everything down. Went inside for a while to wait for sunset, came back to a mount failure. Reset the mount, it worked perfectly for a full set of 24 images of comet Lemmon. Slewed to NGC 2070, it took 15 of 18 subs of 15 mins each before failing sometime in the wee small hours.

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Stuart
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