Question New owner - M-Zero

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28 Jul 2021 14:15 #619 by MRPUGH55
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Hello. I am a new owner of an M-Zero mount and have been testing these past 2 nights. The mount is well balanced, polar alignment is very accurate. For a mount at this price point I thought it would be at least capable of taking a 60 second image unguided and achieve round stars. I am imaging with an ASKAR 200mm lens and a ZWO ASI6200, image scale is 3.8 arsecs per pixel. The mount is configured with this lens/camera on one side of the Dec axis and on the other is the X-guider and a Canon 5D MKIII with a 135mm lens. Not being used at present. So I am very surprised and very disappointed that I am getting elongated stars in just 60 second images. So I would appreciate some advice here as this is hopefully some undiagnosed issue here. thanks. Martin Pugh

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30 Jul 2021 07:23 - 30 Jul 2021 07:24 #625 by Stefano82
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Hello

In order to let us better understand the mount behaviour, could you please send us the full resolution images taken during the sessions (not resized)?

Furthermore, how many images did you take? Did you get elongated stars in any image? Or only in a certain number of them?

Please let us know about it.

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Stefano
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17 Aug 2021 14:56 #643 by telemaq76
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hello,you must adjust the slider TRACKING ADJ, in the RA/DEC part of the stargo interface. dont use the auto adj . if you keep 0 by defaut the sideral rate is not good. -100 works pretty good for me. try to take a 1 second exposure, zoom on the image, take another picture 10 seconds later, and your star moved, wich is not normal. Use the slider, until il doesnt move anymore. then do the calibration of autoguiding if you autoguide.
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