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Originally Posted by lazjen
Leveling: The mount has level bubbles on it, so now I get the bubbles closer to the centre instead of just within the lines. That seemed to work well.
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Have you double checked that the built-in bubble level is centred? The G11s are probably better, but the EQ5/6s are usually soooo far off from the factory that it's really not worth the bother.
I use my phone to level my tripod first, before the mount goes on. I find that very small differences in levelling - e.g. 0.0 versus 0.3 degrees - makes a huge impact on the number of iterations needed to get very accurate alignment.
By the way - another issue to consider is what you have sitting under the mount. Setting my tripod up on green grass usually gives me no end of grief, because the ground settles when I place the mount on the tripod, and the PA changes during the night. Using a few heavy bricks under the tripod usually does the trick.