Day 103 Thursday 3rd July 2014 Spain and Australia Pluto Images compared.
Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 8:27AM I put together my original Pluto image from my C14 with the image from Siding Spring yesterday to confirm that the object originally imaged was in fact Pluto. I was unable to image Pluto on the C14 last night to confirm. Of course I had to turn the Siding Spring image upside down to match!
Unfortunately the images do not overlap to be able to show the movement - thus the above image.
I was unable to use my C14 to take another Pluto image because I decided to check polar alignment again with a drift align and the mount started to "beep" near the meridian. When I switched the mount off and on again the dec motor was fine but the RA motor was unable to run and the dreaded beeps restarted each time. Normally this is due to mount imbalance but this was not the case - raising the worm from the RA gear removed all load but the RA motor still stalled and set off the alarm. trying to sort the problem out in the dark was not possible.