Anders Kvist

8 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Battery fade?

Also I did good stars in other tests it was just that I must have had the unit facing a more favourable direction.

Might be - I've been using it for only a few hours in total as I just got it and the weather only were good the first 3 days I had it :/ But I think it may be a good test to attach an external powersource to test if it makes any difference...

4 minutes ago, Stu said:

I don’t disagree, but mine was quite loose when I got it. Tightening up made a big difference. If yours is solid then the problem obviously lies elsewhere.

I tried finding a manual to how to do it, but found none - can you describe the process?

Just now, happy-kat said:

I don't know. I just shared how I fixed the same appearance of stars in a photo when I used my mount which is also a similar payload and is altaz.

Okay - I can see why you say balance with the photos you got - but I'm not sure when my first photo is perfect, the second has some trails and even longer on the third - it's accelerating. If I center the object again, it's the same all over again.

8 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Then it's balance.

My Virtuoso mount only tracks in azumith if the weight is wrong so I get long trails. East facing I need my camera to be slightly rear heavy and the reverse for West.

See here Link

I think I balanced it quite well,. but not offset like you say. But howcome the moon stays in center for about a minute and then drifts of faster and faster (video)? Is that wrong balancing? 

1 minute ago, happy-kat said:

The mount tracks by tiny left right up down movement so while visually the object stays in the field of view it is rotating. Long exposure even 15 seconds through your 127mm mak will be subject to star trailing much sooner due to the long focal length.

Yes, I know - check the images, it's not rotation, it's trails in the same direction...

I'm all new to this and got my first telescope (Skymax 127) and a AZ-GTI mount a week ago - got it alligned (using liveview on my camera (perfect centering @ 10x display zoom)) and think it worked quite okay, but during tracking it seems to become worse and worse. I took 3 images with a 15 sec exposure - first looked fine, next had trails and the last even longer trails.

I recorded this video of the moon, where I first center the moon and in about a minute it starts to drift off. I wanted to make a similar video with a very bright star and do a "lighten only" layering, so it will be very easy to see the movement in a video, but it's been cloudy since I recorded the video of the moon.

Any suggestions to what's happening here or is it just what can be expected of a AZ mount?

https://imgur.com/a/6wOIvkM

https://imgur.com/a/FfaQxtH

https://imgur.com/a/6IbOQIZ