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Originally Posted by Dennis
Manual guiding:
You are sitting at the off axis guider, guide scope, finder etc. eyeballing a star on an illuminated reticule and making small adjustments to RA (and DEC) manually using the hand paddle. This used to predominate in the days of film astrophotography and is rarely practiced these days (apart for IIS member Tornado!) 
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Ah yes the good old film days with 5 minute minimum exposure times to capture anything, no stacking just single images you got to see a few days later. I still use an illuminated reticule to set up my scope but only have a DEC drive so I can only adjust the tracking speed. (the illuminated reticule is great for polar alignment too) Thankfully with DSLR s you only need 20 sec exposures to get reasonable images.
Rick