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Old 11-06-2008, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by batema View Post
Rob,I am Guiding through a zenithstar66 however I find that I have to use a barlow to get the star in focus with the phillips toucam. I have heard of something like an extension tube for focusing. Do you use one of these or does your webcam go dirctly into the star diagonal and achieve focus. There is also the third possibility that I am doing something incredibly stupid and have been doing it ever since we got the zs66. Mark B

Hi Mark, I just put the webcam (Phillips 900nc) into a 1.25in star diagonal and it finds focus no problem. Is yours perhaps one of the Petzval ZS66's which might be different to the ZS66SD?

Do you use PhD guiding on the 66?
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