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.

Good luck with the treatment and a speedy recovery as i am looking forward to seeing pictures of your pier finished.

As any members that are tradesmen with vans will know you can get a cage that fits inside a van. Now what about a cage that fits within an obsy. So you open your obsy door to be confronted with a cage door that also needs unlocking. Therefore from the outside you have an unobtrusive shed with added security on the inside. It can be made from some angle iron and the good old fashioned chain link fence. You coulkd always have an alrm system then that when active electrifies the cage    .