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Tom, They are most likely satellite trails. Paul

I only had a small weather window earlier this month and missed the Geminids Shower. Interestingly though, on the following night, I set up to try to capture one of my favorites - M42. I haven't

Neverfox It’s the way it is with the Losmandy design. I too was surprised when I first got my new mount. There’s a few previous posts on similar subject. Have a read of this string.

Neverfox: The RA never does swing completely freely as there is a fractional inward vector force of the downward weight of the mount pressing on the clutch. The wavy washer helps but does not

My GM811GHD was "sticky" like that as well when brand new. The Wavey Washer fixed it. One of the biggest improvements I made was when I installed the *RAEXT* ( http://store.losmandy.com/raext ) on my

Brian, Thanks. I tried the lower altitude trick and that gave me a less sticky experience on the stickier side (while actually making the less sticky side more sticky). In any case, I was able to get

Did you try plug the HC into the other serial port? ?Remember to increase the baud if that fails ....and sorry I think it will. ?.....the HC Is bad. ?Yes Thursday did have old boards ....or early

Hello Brendan, Thanks a lot for the response. I opened up the HC again and checked for anything pressing. I tried to use the display without the cover and still the same issue. SD card is okay and I

We have a video that covers how to balance the mount along with additional balancing tips (watch to end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHJYkJLBZDc

and..... I'll let Brian weigh in on whether that is normal or not. However, my new(ish) GM811 is the same. The RA axis never becomes fully free like the DEC axis. To balance, I just nudge RA in both

Hi Hermant usual cause of this is the case is putting pressure on the display somewhere long it’s edge usually called the “gasket”. ? You need to clean the display and gasket to stop this.

First of all, glad to be part of the group, as I just received my GM811G today, which is also my first Losmandy. Everything is set up but I'm a bit perplexed by the RA axis. With the clutch knob

Hello all, I am facing a strange problem with my HC touch screen. Center left part of the screen does correctly respond to touch. Touching that portion of the screen is recognized as touch towards the

Mark. Thanks so much. In my ignorance I have maintain the clutches fairy tight to help with unloading and setting up. I had no idea I could damage the Mount. Thanks again and I’ll keep them very

Persons Coverdale, By locking the clutches (including when person-handling the mount in and out of the boxes) you are taking an unnecessary risk of damaging the AL worm. I once saw a cheaper (poor

hmm I don't see the calibration prior to the GA run, but it looks to me like you may have had an orthagonality problem there Towards the end of the log the long guiding runs look pretty good, you're

Brian, I wanted to share the screen so that you can have a better idea as to why I had chosen the numbers for guiding :D. I am attaching the phd2 log during which I ran the guide assistant. As for the

Hi Sunil Ah - i did not see a guiding assistant run there Screen captures aren't useful for analysis, if you can upload the log that included the GA run that would be great. Are you sure the log you

Mark, Your comment on Sunil having is clutches unlocked to transport got me to thinking. I transport my G-8 into the Mojave Desert for Bortle 1/2 imaging and never do anything to the clutches. Am I

Brian, All the values entered in the toolbar(except the Hysterisis) was recommeded by phd2. The one thing I gotta mention is that the weather here is a bit hazy so I was taking longer duration guide