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ha guiding
Hi Jason
I'd say you will be fine in the more starry fields - I assume you are using the Paramount ME. I am currently running an ST8XME with self guiding through a 6nm astrodon filter - at the moment sitting behind a 12" SCT at f5. I am taking longer tracking exposures than normal however, 15 - 20 sec. The remote guide head is on my to buy list even so. The PME has such good unguided tracking that you will get away with longer guide exposures easily. I am easily managing 10 minutes unguided with this rig. Once I replace this SCT with a similar sized but slower RC I'd say I'll move up to a 6303E chip camera, which may or may not be SBIG. cheers, guy
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