[xelasnave]

I have only guided manually and found finding a guide star a pain.

Often I would use a Barlow in an effort to detect star movement better and finding something bright really was never easy.
In addition adjusting the guide scope was a pain even though I developed a bracket that seemed to work better than rings.

So with that in mind my thoughts are these.
The guide scope is bolted to the capture scope as solid as possible to eliminate any possibility of flex.

At the end of the scope in a bracket that I will design later tonight there is a secondary type mirror that can be rotated easily to select a guide star.

I even thought that say imaging an object in the South that via this system I could select a faster moving star in the North which I would think should provide advantage.

Why won't this idea work?

Alex