Francis Sneyers

I have a lot of difficulty to use my new Lacerta on my old Newton 1480 mm. When I use exposuretimes of 10 minutes, I have little stripes, no stardots. I think maybe I don't use the right values. Can anyone help me with this please ? Here is a picture of yesterday evening with the Nikon D5100 APS-C . It is not cropped. Thanks for helping me. Here are de details: LACERTA MGEN II with SKYWATCHER EQ6-R PRO Lacerta: Guider setup: obj. Focus= 180 mm / AG speed= RA 0,5x DEC 0,5x / CCD binning= 1x1 Current guiding/ pagina 1/5 Gain= 7 Expos= 900ms Treshold= 1 (of 2) Pagina 2/5 Invert RA – Invert DEC – Pagina 3/5 RA num 1 tol 0,10 aggr 70% mode 2 Pagina 4/5 DEC num 1 tol 0,10 aggr 70% mode 2 Pagina 5/5 EXTRA Img prog OLD Full wnd Camera off More Save pos. - wait 0 Negative - DC in 11.5V Live view screen: Gain= 7 Expos= 900ms Treshold= 1 (of 2) avg EQ6-R pro: Auto Guide Speed: 0,5x In "Live view" I see the star on the little screen of the Lacerta handcontrol. When I go to "star search" the star is not there on the little window. When I go to "calibration" it shows "star lost restoring mountposition" Sometimes, he calibrates on a very bright star and I can use "autoguiding start" but the results are very poor. De Skywatcher tracking without the Lacerta is almost as good, as you can see on the pictures. Hopely someone can give me the right indications, I would like that very much,

Thank you Peter, for your answer. The seller (Robtics in Holland) claims that the EQ6-Rpro will perform very good for Photography till 18 kg load. So this is for me not easy to decide. It would be great if anyone really uses that mount for photography with 18 kg load and is happy with it...

The manuel says 20 kg is the maximum load. Has anyone some experience if this is really the case ? I read a comment of someone who said that 12 kg is the maximum weight for photography….