Update on my Meade LX85. Had to send to Mount in for repair or replacement. No matter how good my polar alignment was, got it close to perfect many times using the polar scope ( aligned perfectly and checked many times ) as well as the Polar align function in Asiair. There was always back and forth movement and could never get the RA under 1.0. These clips of the Asiair screen were the BEST I could get and would only happen for a short time. From the start I could not get more than 35 seconds exposures without star trailing without guiding, I only once got just under 1 minute exposures, that should have been the clue that something was wrong with it Bought a tracking system hoping it would fix the problem but instead gave me blurry pictures from the constant movement of the tracked star. I tried over 100% aggressiveness, less aggressiveness, DEC off and on, with and without reducer, nothing made the slightest difference, that was a sign the mount was bad from the start. Hopefully I'll have better luck when I get it back or replaced.
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