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Nick according to that 3 hour run, your primary PE is about 4.5" (removing corrections) after guiding, the residual of your primary error is about 0.25" Given your image scale, you are talking about

Guider is 6.45 as/px Main cam is 2.2 as/px

I agree it can be a chore (and the video description offers some tips on how to ease that) But if you mark it, you only really need to do it once. I like to set my weights and then pull the dec axis

Nick what is your imaging scale again? wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>

While ALT = 0 is probably the most accurate, this method can be a bit of a chore. Cranking the altitude knob downwards is fairly easy, but turning back up to your latitude setting takes some

And this is a 10min sub from that session (toward the end). The elongated stars mostly in the top right are from some tilt I am dealing with

Yeah, this one has about a 3 hr guiding session at the end that overall I am extremely happy with. It was at Dec = 60 though and on another forum, someone pointed out that if I repeated this at dec=0

Nick i think you are munging a few different things together here that may confuse things Do you have a guidelog segment that is at least 30 minutes of solid guiding (doesn't have to be low RMS, but

Apologies for the barrage of questions here. I ran unguided for around 20 mins at DEC=0 (basically went to PHD2 drift align and told the mount to slew to where it wants to do that) As others helped me

That makes sense Brian. If it does not impact tracking then I dont care. Tracking is the only thing I am really interested in getting the best out of. I can use the alt=0 trick easily if need be.

Nick, The wavy washer goes in between the RA clutch plates and helps separate them when the locks are untightened. Unless you are at the equator, the altitude your mount is set at will always cause

Hi Nick You only need to find balance once, so the ALT=0 trick is a good one the wavy washer can certainly help though it is totally unrelated to tracking wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio

I've watched all the videos (and going to watch this one again). My rig is light but I do find that its really difficult to "unbalance" it by moving the weight up and down I got the 7 pound weight

i'd recommend trying the Alt=0 approach. You can of course pick up the wavy washer -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>

Just get the wavy washer for RA axis.

THanks. Sorry, yes, I mean the wavy washer. Mark

On either side if you rotate Dec past 90'degrees it should move freely. Just ate a bit further On RA try the alt=0 trick mentioned Re Belleville I think you may be thinking of the wavy washer? Brian

Brian, Thank you for your warp speed fast reply. I have watched your excellent video on balancing. ?For RA, there is no rotation position where the axis is free to move. ?For DEC, only when the OTA

Hi Mark please watch the video on balancing your mount, including tips all the way to the end (and read description for update) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHJYkJLBZDc (and i recommend the entire

I just received my new G11G system for astrophotography. ?I set it up and everything functions properly in a basement test. However, the RA and DEC axes are very sticky when the clutches are