Grease and oil change Triffid Test

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

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

[DavidTrap (David)]

Gotta be happy with that for Alt-Az, unguided!

DT

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Remarkable Wayne. Nice job.

[Poita (Peter)]

Have you got a photo of your setup?

I have an LX50 and am about to strip it down and clean it up, I hope I get similar results in improving it.

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Thanks David, Rowland and Peter.

Peter, photos of my setup can be found here.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=910127&postcount=782

Peter, I thought these sites below may be of help to you for your LX50, I hope your work on it will go well.

Meade LX50 user group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LX50/

MAPUG Topical Archive pdf
http://www.wideman.org/MAPUG/MAPUG_Topical_Archive_11-27-2006.pdf

Some Meade LX50 mods
http://webpages.charter.net/tagos/lx50/lx-50.htm