jonnopfc

Might also be worth cleaning all that old grease off and using a silicon based one have read something somewhere about stripping a mount down and regreasing.

Whilst i use Tom's excellent piece of kit on my eq5 (not much use at the mo) have you thought about using HitechAstro EQDir along with eqmod (which you will need anyway with either option) as then you only need to purchase the cable from FLO to connect your laptop to your mount.

The word's fantastic, amazing, incredible etc do not do your picture justice it is truely inspersational and i feel will never cease to amaze those of us that have looked and those still yet to. Hats off to you guys.

Images like yours just go to show what can be achieved by backyard astronomers. Fantastic image.