After over a week of scratching my head. Trying this and trying that, I'm back to imaging again. Target tonight is M53. I would go for a galaxy, but I'm one globular cluster short of getting my RASC Deep sky imaging certificate. Not that I need that for any reason, but it's just fun, and I able to get my kids excited about doing a wide-field certificate.?
I started out with my best balance, no east biasing, and saw some terrible guiding. I tightened up the RA spring, and the stop screw twice. Just a bit really, and my guiding is around 1 RMS, which should be good enough for this target. At some point when I want to tweak things further I'll return to east biasing, but for now I'm taking pictures!
Thanks everyone!!!!
Jamie
Jamie Amendolagine