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Old 14-02-2016, 09:25 AM
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Lee "Wormsy" Borsboom

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Someone should make an OAG/rotator

I love my Celestron OAG, best OAG I've found so far, but it has one flaw. You can rotate the guide camera and main camera simultaneously by undoing three screws on the "front" side of the OAG, and rotating the whole train.

To rotate the guide cam independently of the imaging cam, you have to undo three screws on the front, and three on the back, which means you have to hold your imaging cam in place by hand while rotating the guide cam. It's hard to keep your composition "just so" while doing that. Especially annoying when you do a meridian flip and lose your guide star.

It'd be great if someone made a rotator with a built-in OAG that could rotate your main cam, while independently rotating the guide cam, all motorised so you could do it remotely...
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