[allan gould]

Some time back in the eqipment section I mentioned that I had purchased a TVGuider from Martin Mylivec. Well it arrived today and tonight I checked out its functionality, but before I get to that I must say how well it was manufactured and easily manipulated in the dark. Its been well thought out in that all buttons are backlit for use in the dark. The LCD screen can be swithed off either to give a clean screen or switched off entirely to save power. Runs on 12 volt battery but on a battery that my laptop had drained and refused to start up on, this unit went away merrily guiding. Its so well thought out that it seems stupidly simple.
Plug in the camera, focus on a star, place the Xhairs on it and it starts guiding straight away. Read the manual and its very sophisticated but thats buried under the hood but still accesable.
Guided to subpixel accuracy easily for 20+ minutes.
For the price it stuffs an st4/stv into a cocked hat and there is no other stand alone autoguider out there.
I'm so pleased I managed to get my hands on this unit.
Now I can do away with my laptop in the field which if it didn't blind me, then it quickly drained my batteries.