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Originally Posted by Terry B
I have an AO7 permanently on my camera. It certainly used up back focus so that I can't use the focal reducer on my VC200l and EQ6. This means I image at 1800mm. Using just my guide scope I get a bit of flexure that becomes apparent with 5min exposures. I can use the AO7 and keep an object on exactly the same pixels. When I use it is for time series photometry. It corrects the guiding much better than the guidescope. This reduces error in the data. It can't always be used but I can usually get a guidestar with 1/4-1 sec exposures.
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Terry,
Anacortes has the ao8 on sale for $495us, and can be used with a vc200l with the reducer and an sbig st camera. I have a vc200 and have done it, it was annoying for me because I had to swap out my df2 focuser for a robofocus. I cant remember if I had the rotator in at the same time.
Brett