Rinse until the water runs clear" changed my life too, no joke.

I spent three hours in my backyard with a $45 "pro" star tracker from a random Chinese site, and after like 10 seconds of tracking it just spun off into the grass like a confused Roomba. Idk @hannahh53, I read the manual twice and it was basically just pictures of stars with arrows, so maybe I missed the part where it says "don't spin in circles." Maybe it's just me but I figure if a mount can't hold a target for longer than it takes to sneeze, that's not user error, that's a paperweight. Honestly though, I probably should have known better than to trust a site that spelled "astrophotography" wrong in the product title.

Joke's on me, I still can't get paste to set without crying into the grain.

My buddy counts seconds for his pour and honestly it works fine for him.

You're just lucky, most of us can't drop that kind of cash on scissors.