I saw some impressive images of Comet SWAN on the web. Unfortunately, I have to skip it. I think it will not be in my field of view and I have started to maintain my mount. Hopefully, I will have it build up again this weekend. At the moment it looks like this
I'm just waiting to get a tool delivered to remove the old needle bearings from the DEC an RA housings.
I'm already very curious about your Comet SWAN post and images 😊
That does not look like fun!
Well, I have to say that it was very interesting to see how a mount is built. The only thing that wasn't fun, was to find all this sloppy work which I find unjustified in a mount of this price range.
But it moves now very smooth when moving by hand. Unfortunately, the weather don't let me do any guiding tests.