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While I've not used Guidedog (I use K3CCDTools V2) you may be able to use Guidedog to assist in your polar alignment. If not download K3 V2 (its fully functional for a month or 30 uses, I can't remember which) and check out the Drift Explorer function. IMHO its brilliant for getting your polar alignment spot on!! Takes a bit of practice but its a great all round program. You can autoguide, polar align, planetary capture with webcam, process planetary captured images (not as easily processed as Registax but when working right (I'm a bit hit and miss with it) IMO produces a better final unprocessed image than registax).
Oh and if your celestron has PPec (permanent periodic error correction) you can use the autoguiding function to dtrive your ppec training which will help immensely when you want to take shorter images (say up to three minutes or so) without autoguiding. If you can get your PPEC really well trained and your polar alignment spot on then you may not need to autoguide at all for shots maybe up to three minutes.
Have a think about it
PS a dedicated astronomical CCD will be much more sensitive than a ToUcam for autoguiding so you could use fainter stars with the OAG.
Last edited by [1ponders]; 31-07-2005 at 01:08 PM.
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