I just watched 2 YouTube videos from Astrobloke in the UK where he hypertunes his EQ6-R pro mount and achieves incredible results in guiding error
Out of the box he was guiding around 0.80 arc sec error , then applying a PPEC to the mount etc.. he was guiding around 0.60 and after a hyper tune he’s now guiding at 0.30 arc sec error. He still believes he can get the guiding even tighter after all the work on the mount.
The only questions I have is what payload was his EQ6-R carrying and the mount really needs to perform over a range of seeing conditions to get a real evaluation of guiding as I doubt whether it would consistently guiding around 0.30 arc sec error or even lower ?
My EQ6-R pro ( I have 2 of them) mount can guide at 0.60 to 0.65 one night and a week later guide at 0.95 to 1.20 arc sec error
There’s not doubt that replacing all the bearings with premium quality bearings plus re greasing and backlash adjustments would improve guiding but by how much consistently ??
Comments and experiences most welcome
Martin
https://youtu.be/qujs7Kt_6_c
https://youtu.be/1-jAGnAiuE0