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I've got the unmodded toucam - so far it's been not too much trouble to find guidestars, but I have been starting off with the brighter DSOs!
I found that fine slewing of the scope to find/centre stars in the PHD viewing screen doesn't affect the object's position in the camera's field of view too much.
My guidescope is rigidly fixed to the main imaging scope too on a pair of ADM guiderings.
For the modded toucam, I was told that you needed both USB and Parallel ports on the computer to use it - don't know if that's gospel, someone else can comment.
Overall though Lee, the addition of the toucam has been the cheapest yet most significant addition to my astrophotography arsenal!!
Initial experiments had me guiding on the tarantula Neb for 10 minutes before I got bored and wanted to see the resulting image - I could have let it go longer!!!
All the best
Doug
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