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Todays Sun - better conditions than recently:

Todays Sun (with dust bunny!  Camera now cleaned):

Todays murky and wobbly Sun:

There are several very good battery box construction threads in the DIY section of this forum.  Both complete builds and conversions from a variety of commercially available boxes - some of which did not start life as battery boxes!

Todays Sun after waiting for hours for a break in the clouds!

A very hazy and wobbly Sun today

First Summer Sun of the year!!

Todays Sun in - Guess what? - Awful seeing!!

Todays Sun through atrocious seeing!

If you have just bought bearings are they not already greased?  If so you could ask the supplier which grease it is.  Many bearings are greased for life and should be OK as they are.  If you want to change the grease you need to ensure that you have removed ALL the old grease before greasing with the new grease.  

Finally a break between heavy showers!  However the seeing was pretty awful.  Looks like a new(?) AR coming round the limb in the southern hemisphere.

Todays Sun through the haze and extremely poor seeing.  May try again later if the clouds move away.

Excellent image - you have certainly nailed both focus and correct exposure.

The rain rained and the clouds passes and finally there was a clear sky with pretty good seeing!! 🌞

Yea!!  The seeing was good today (for those prepared to wait almost all day for a clear patch 😄. )

The Sun on 15 days so far in May 2022 set up as a short GIF;

If you can replace your mount in the same position as you have it after a nighttime session you should be near enough.  Maybe marks on the ground - some folk have put bricks or tiles in the lawn and chiselled small depressions in them to take the tripod feet.  It will track but may need the occasional "nudge" on the controls to keep the image in the field of view.  If you are taking photos then there is still little problem as the Sun is so bright that exposure times are very short and you will not have an issue.

Todays Sun with half decent seeing for a change.

Today's hazy Sun:

Todays Sun - taken before clouds rolled in again.  We now seem to have about 80% cloud cover.

Darned lucky to get anything today Steve.

Today's effort through the tiniest of breaks in the clouds!  Seems to be a lot going on at the moment.

Work by elimination.  take the filter off and take a frame if they are gone you know it was the filter.  Can you rotate the protective window?  If so do that and take a frame.  If the bunnies have "rotated" as well you know they are on the window.  If they are still there try the same trick but this time rotate the camera.  You should be able to determine which is the culprit(s)

Your camera needs 7.4v not 12v.  You could use an ACK-E10 mains adapter if you had mains available but you don't - so you could try a buck stepdown module like this one HERE .  Just google 12v to 7.4v Buck stepdown converter.  You would need to rig up suitable connections for the camera (maybe steal one from the ACK-E10 unit?  Hope that gets you started. (usual discalimers)