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<blockquote data-quote="JimK" data-source="post: 824123" data-attributes="member: 53592">Thanks so much for your reply!The counter weight was set properly, but the polar alignment was not totally accurate; I was taking pictures in front of my house instead of in my backyard so I pointed the tracker in the general direction for the north star. The tracker did track the moon fine, never drifting out of the frame. I did have a cable release hooked up to my camera on a 2-second delay, but also noticed that the strap at times was causing some motion from swaying. Exposure times varied between 1/15th to 1/125th with exposure compensation on some shots. I did finally try the mirror lock-up function, but tried to refocus the shot in Live View mode which made it worse. Couldn't get the focus back to where it was and then just gave up for the night. I also was using a T-adapter on my camera to connect to the telescope; don't know if that had any affect on the focus. Will try not using the T-adapter next time to see if that helps.Thank you for your suggestions!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimK, post: 824123, member: 53592"] Thanks so much for your reply! The counter weight was set properly, but the polar alignment was not totally accurate; I was taking pictures in front of my house instead of in my backyard so I pointed the tracker in the general direction for the north star. The tracker did track the moon fine, never drifting out of the frame. I did have a cable release hooked up to my camera on a 2-second delay, but also noticed that the strap at times was causing some motion from swaying. Exposure times varied between 1/15th to 1/125th with exposure compensation on some shots. I did finally try the mirror lock-up function, but tried to refocus the shot in Live View mode which made it worse. Couldn't get the focus back to where it was and then just gave up for the night. I also was using a T-adapter on my camera to connect to the telescope; don't know if that had any affect on the focus. Will try not using the T-adapter next time to see if that helps. Thank you for your suggestions!! [/QUOTE]

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