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Old 05-06-2013, 03:48 PM
wayne anderson (Wayne)
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Grease and oil change Triffid Test

After a lot of research on how to regrease the LX200 I have just stripped, cleaned and regreased the gears in the LX200, when slewing to an object it was sounding like a very coarse grain coffee grinder now it sounds good like a very fine grain coffee grinder, when tracking it sounds quiet now.

There is a very slight tracking error in the both the RA and DEC drive when tracking so it looks like I need to train the PEC again.

This is a test image to see if it all works ok.

Triffid Nebula M20

240 x 25sec subs at iso 1600, darks and bias (100mins data)
12" LX200 (alt/az setup, No guiding)
Sony Nex-3 DSLR Camera
Stacked in DSS, Processed in GIMP
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