[allan gould]

Finally have been able to get my guidescope configuration how I wanted after several frustrating nights of finding guide stars. Shown in the attached photo is a chopped down 70x500mm refractor with an XY shifter and flip mirror, going to either an eyepiece or video camera attached to the stand alone TVGuider (mentioned elswhere). The coupling of this to Losmandy rings with a three screw adjustment in the rings now makes finding and centering a guide star on the video chip a real breaze. Now I can have stable and easy guiding without all the frustration that comes when the sun goes down - now to get to step two and get my focussing down pat. Have a few ideas on how to do this easily and repeatedly.