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Old 07-10-2010, 03:18 PM
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tlgerdes (Trevor)
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OK, the autoguider just does the guiding part, and yes it shows the picture of the stars it can see on your computer screen.

You will still need a camera to image with. I use a Canon DSLR (entry level 1000d) and use the EOS Utility that comes with it for image aquistion, focusing and initial display/framing via a PC and USB connection to camera.

My DSLR with my 8"newt gives me an imaging FOV of 1.5deg x 1deg, so I can pretty much align autoguider with my camera FOV a WYSIWYG image aquistion/guiding alignment.
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