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Chris,
I wonder how it would go if you used your mini 50mm or 60mm finder scope guide setup and a 2nd guider and lens or efinder locked onto the dovetail plate and set to 1 minute corrections. You may be able to go much longer focal length with that.
I am going to be experimenting with multiple guidecams. I cannot use MMOAG with the reducer on my CDK17. Whilst I get round stars most of the time I do lose some to elongation from flexure at different angles.
A 2nd guide cam like the STX setup may help there.
I'll post the results once I do this. It won't be for a while but its a project I intend doing.
Also I remember Jase referring to some great autoguiding plug ins you can use with Maxim DL. Averaging 2 guide stars for example.
Chris you're good with software. What about a plug in that did mean combines on the fly of your guide star guiding exposures?
Imagine between 1 to 10 x 1 second guide exposures rapidly mean combined and then working the autoguding correction from that.
It'd be a great way to beat the seeing and perhaps set at 4 x 1 second combined guide exposures on an accurate mount and in theory you would get superior autoguiding as you would be averaging out the seeing. It would work better on a bad seeing night. When you consider most people experience poor seeing routinely it would be a valuable plug in. A 2nd guide camera set to 60 second guide corrections and mounted on the dovetail could help with flexure in the guide scope.
Greg.
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