LESSON: Perfect balancing required for meridian flips

So, last night I had intended to image the Draco Trio all night which to no surprise requires a meridian flip. I had great guiding until it got past the meridian. It started a slow degrade from there. I ended up changing targets to another object on the east side.

Don't cheat on balancing! Spend an extra minute trying to get as close to 'east biased' as possible. After the flip set a slight bias to the West. In general, I try to avoid flips altogether and stay on the east side of the mount when possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKycMPwpQ8

Anyway, here is 2 hours on the Draco Trio.

2 Hours on the Draco Trio

40 minutes on M52 and the Bubble Nebula