baldeliftman

That's the problem its not first class mount as earlier posts of problems with pec and video stacking ,to rewrite pec I have to buy the software and a camera ( as I only have a atik infinity at the moment ) so the thinking is to go for auto guider to guide the mount and to then  take video  and miss out pec I assume that's correct ,I don't really want to do off axis so what is your recommended guide scope ,hope this makes sense . Many thanks 

Hi I would like if possible your recommendation's for a auto guider and scope that will work  on a meade lx200 16 inch classic, running phd on the laptop ( not to price,e as we don't get that many clear nights in a year 5 in total this year ) many thanks

Thanks Louis D, Jason has come to the rescue, the original pec can be over written with pempro as some were badly written at the factory, Top man Jason Ware .

Worth a try just tell them you cant sleep at night 

They might change it to a led light that would be better

Tell them its keeping you awake at night as it shines into your bedroom.

Thanks for the advice have email Jason and look forward to hopefully his reply

Wow top guy Jason has replied  

Hi can not find anything in the manual about PEC this scope has seen a few years so maybe before its time ,I have had problems with not stacking on mainly galaxies  but  no problems on bigger objects like M42 .So I was looking to see if tracking was the problem, many thanks 

Hi can any one help on a Lx200 16 inch classic ,over a few nights of clear weather I have been trying to do some video astronomy with a atik infinity camera and have noticed that on finder view that the scope is not tracking as should but target star is moving in RA ie moves to west for a period of time then returns to the centre before moving east for a period of time ( I have the finder view set to 9 seconds and the target star will move about half a star diameter in that time ) I have read about training the RA on other scopes but cannot find it on this one only dec training is there 

Yes it was them I counted 34 in total from one side of the sky  to the other in the end there will be a complete ring around the earth, there were single ones after on the same course so they are just filling in the gaps.  

When lining up the stars did you use a eyepiece with cross hairs I did my skywatcher mount first time by eye with a 20 mm eyepiece it was way off all the time then I did it with cross hairs and it was bang on. 

hi is the carbon wrap stickebacked

That looks good worth the time doing it but did you tell skywatcher about the problems you had to start with,if they don't know they cant fix it.