![]() ![]() However, when pointing to a star, I would see it drift after a few seconds, so clearly no tracking. I gave up star alignment, so just skipped the alignment part, thinking I could still use the mount to track without star alignment. I mean totally way off, sometimes pointing the opposite direction. I did try to align one or two stars, but the telescope would just be way off the targeted star. I then hooked on the handset, entered all the info for initialisation, checked the sidareal tracking was checked, but still no tracking, even though the mount did make some noise at that point. ![]() Clearly it did not, as the mount did not move and was completely silent. ![]() I initially believed I would not need the handset for simple tracking and that after polar alignment, the mount would automatically start tracking. The mount does not track even though I've done the polar alignment and hooked on the synscan handset. Before I do, I wanted to ask you guys for advice because I can not exclude the possibility that I'm just doing things wrong. I've been spending countless hours trying to solve my problem and I am now to the point where I think my équipement is faulty and needs to be returned to be checked. I recently decided to upgrade to a skywatcher heq5 pro mount which I intend to use with a Ed-80 refractor, also from skywatcher. I'm quite new at astrophotography, although I've used a startravel mount together with a camera for a couple of years. ![]()
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