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By Paul779
Hi all
New to the astrophotography game. Looking to get into guiding now.
Looking for an EQ3-2 with enhanced dual motor drives or synscan system would also consider barebones EQ3-2/EQ5 to upgrade, not minted right now can offer £150-200.
Cheers
Paul
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By Brownthunder93
Anyone have any idea where I can get a replacement counterweight bar/shaft for my EQ5 mount?
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By Astrid
My 200P just arrived and oh my God... I have been trying to wrap my head around the mount for 4 hours.
The manual didn't really help so I decided to go on youtube, but again, I didn't find any good and detailed videos so I decided to ask here if there is any video or perhaps blog post that might help me set up the mount.
Thank you very much!
*by the way, is the EQ5 supposed to have slow motion cables? I only got 2 knobs (not cables) and I'm not sure if there is something missing or not... sorry, this is the first time I've used a serious equatorial mount or telescope.
Thank you very much!
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By SteveBz
Hi People,
I have quite severe backlash, such that guiding assistant just gives up. It seems to be about 11 secs in total, the one time GA came back with anything, but it's about 3-4 secs if I measure it by hand. Here's some guiding. Actually, it's worse when I'm dithering.
So, I tried measuring the backlash with by counting and it's about 3-4 secs. If I used PHD2 guiding assistant, mostly it fails, or it comes back with a very big number, like 11,350 msecs.
I tried entering this:
But then I got a see-saw mechanism, even when I dropped 8,000 to 3,000 it was the same.
I've taken the motor off just now and looked at the grub/hex-screw mechanisms. One hex-screw was loose, so I tightened it to hand tight and let the grub-screw off an eighth of a turn. I'll look again this evening.
I ran a three hour sequence of exposures on NGC6888 (with dither) and this is what I got on EVERY image. Amazingly, they stacked nicely.
So last night I ran without dither and it was mostly OK. What I want is full dither, but to do that I need to deal with the backlash.
Here's a photo of the motor and gears, most of the backlash seems to come from the top gear (ie the 12-tooth gear and its neighbour). I guess the rest comes from the worm-gear:
Does anyone have any suggestions? There doesn't seem to be a belt-mod for the EQ5 as far as I can see. Maybe there are better Dec backlash compensation settings I could use.
Thanks,
Steve.
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