Re: [APML] Celestron or Meade Off Axis Guider

["Ryder Homestead" <ryderhome@bigpond.com>]

Thanks Alan, I will look at the Taurus Tracker.

I note from my research this week that Lumicon have ceased trading as of
September 2002.

Rodney



----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Voetsch <critter12952@yahoo.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Celestron or Meade Off Axis Guider


> 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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