RE: [APML] piggy back guide scope size

["Gene Horr" <genehorr@houston.rr.com>]

> Can anyone give me a minnimum size for a guide scope to go on my sc. I
have
> a 6 x 6 Hasselblad connected to the visual back of my 8" sc and I need to
> come up with a setup to allow me to guide on long exposures.

Well, Kent covered the problems you'll run into with guidescope guiding.
If you have a good refractor 2" will work, although personally I would go
with at least 2.5".

Gene Horr
genehorr@texas.net


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