Sky-Watcher EQM-35 - making it work properly (BELOW 1" RMS GUIDING) in 3 simple steps!
In this video I show how I tweaked my Sky-Watcher EQM-35 Pro astrophotography mount to get better tracking and more accurate guiding. I am using it with a William Optics Gran Turismo 81mm triplet APO refractor and I'm getting fantastic results now. I can definitely recommend this mount to beginner deep sky imagers.
⭐️ Full raw video (with commentary) of me doing the procedure of removing axes stiffness for my Patreon supporters only - consider joining ⭐️
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► CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro, example guide graphs
01:36 Advantages of the EQM-35 mount
03:05 What’s wrong with the EQM-35
04:25 Fixing mount stiffness
10:43 Fixing guiding calibration issues
12:40 Fixing Dec backlash
15:42 Conclusion
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