Re: [APML] 9mm or 12mm guiding eyepiece

["Woolies Woolies" <astrolist@hotmail.com>]

Thank you all for your information.
I have to tell you that I have never guided before and I will be guiding 
manually. I do not have an autoguider. I might consider that in the future. 
Or I might go for an off-axis guider.
What do you recomment?

Thanx again.
Marios.
http://www.cyprusastronomy.com


>From: Tonyhallas@aol.com
>Reply-To: astro-photo@seds.org
>To: astro-photo@seds.org
>Subject: Re: [APML] 9mm or 12mm guiding eyepiece
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:39:40 EDT
>
>Marios,
>
>     IMHO get the eyepiece without the circles.... if you are trying to 
>guide
>on a faint star
>the more "noise" you have in the eyepiece the harder it is to see the star.
>Back the star
>into your favorite corner of the square and keep it there, or use the 
>Lumicon
>relay lens
>to really power up the guide/shoot ratio and then just keeping the star in
>the center of the square will do great. As an aside, it is vital for people
>new to guiding to manually guide in some fashion before using automated
>devices...1. You will understand guiding. 2. You will fall on your knees 
>and
>say a prayer of thanks to SBIG for having perfected autoguiders.
>
>       Tony
>
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