Hi all. for years I've been thinking about having an off axis guider to better align those fuzzy bits when taking an image. I recently was give a film SLR camera which had been dropped and consequently broke open. Still, some of the internals were intact. I stripped the body to extract the flip mirror and levers attached and use this to make the guider. I made a new body from alum tubing and used plywood to make the connectors for the focuser. I found an old 50 mm 1.1/4 inch EP holder which is attached to the side facing the mirror. With the EP in place, I then move the mirror in place so I can see the image from the scope. Once aligned, I move the mirror back so the camera has the image from the scope. I added a slide to hold filters in front of the camera.
I used a spare camera to show how it would look.
Instead of threading a T ring to the guider, I made a platform to secure the camera. The camera has it's T ring fitted and sits inside the guider. I also fitted an O-III filter in the holder.
I sure some fine tuning will be needed afterwards.
