Re: [APML] Auto Guiders.

["Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Jeff, what focal length imaging scope are you guiding with the 200mm lens? I tried doing that with
my 180mm lens and was not happy with how it guided my 800mm imaging scope. Maybe I should try
again?

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

Stuart
http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
Flesherton, Ontario, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Crilly" <jlcapml@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Auto Guiders.


> > All, what are people buying/using these days for
> > autoguiders? Its my understanding that the ST4
> > and the Meade's are no longer being produced.
> > Are people being forced into the STV?
>
> The STV is what SBIG would like you to think of when you need an autoguider.
>
> I use an ST7E that I picked up astromart last year for about $1600.
> They are now down into the sub-$1k range.
>
> For the guidescope, at one point I used an orion 80mm f11, but now
> use an old 200mm camera lens (picked up for $5 at the camera store's
> junk box).. this is an old pentax-screw mount type lens and fits
> the CCD camera t-thread pretty good.
>
> This does require a laptop, and since its parrallel, it requires
> one of those too.  Also, I noticed that I ~sometimes~ (though rarely)
> get "camera timeouts" if I switch to other programs (e.g. thesky).
>
> I also know someone that uses the st5c, aka the pixcel255 (? the
> celestron branded unit).
>
> Fwiw, I beleive any sensitive camera that can do video-for-windows
> can be used as an autoguider with maxim/dl-ccd, but I've only
> tried this briefly.
>
> jeff
>
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