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Old 21-09-2017, 05:50 PM
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When guiding manually in the old days I would ramp up the guide scope with a barlow and hope that there would be a star left bright enough to see against the illuminated red cross hairs... At one point I was going to use my 1200 mm fl refractor as a guide scope.
But now with my auto guide working I cant believe how easy it is..the program even finds a guide star within the field of view...when manual one would have to find the guide star and then adjust the imaging scope from there, a time consuming and most frustrating process.
But I will run the sums but so far my finder guider is way past anything I used in the past.
Thanks Ken.
Alex
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