I've been directed here from another thread I started with some questions related to EQ3 imaging.☺️
I've been testing the tracking of my mount, trying to find my retention rate at various exposures..
Had another test session last night. Tracking problems not solved..! ? still had more bad subs than good ones, about 40% retention rate.
Managed a pretty good polar alignment from the look of it. Mount balance looked good too, but still lost a lot of frames. The thing is, it looks like I lose the same amount of frames percent wise, when I'm doing 30 second exposures as I do at 60 second exposures..
I suspect it is the mount having uneven movement from sticky gears, does this sound plausible? All the trailing was in the same direction, RA axis by the look of it.
There were also small guests of occasional wind, don't think it had much effect..