Re: [APML] Celestron or Meade Off Axis Guider

[Alan Voetsch <critter12952@yahoo.com>]

Hi Rodney,

--- Ryder Homestead <ryderhome@bigpond.com> wrote:
> Any thoughts, recommendations or experiences to
> assist with this purchase?

Yep, look at the products from Lumicon and Taurus. A
couple years down the road, you'll end up with one of
these anyway. 

I use the Taurus Tracker III and love it. The view and
guide ports are setup to be parfocal with the camera,
meaning, you can focus your camera by looking through
an EP in the view port. The whole assembly can be
rotated for guidestar acquisition, or the camera only
can be rotated for framing purposes. The guide port
(the ports are helical) can be set up the same way.
Once a guidestar is acquired and centered, you just
leave the IREP in, or replace it with an autoguider
and your off.

Alan

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