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Old 20-01-2012, 09:13 AM
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Nico13 (Ken)
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Originally Posted by Screwdriverone View Post
My new Orion 50mm Mini Guidescope/finderscope is a corker for only $119, its fantastic compared to my dodgy finderscope conversion I did with the toucam....

Parfocal ring means I can set the focus and screw on the ring to the toucam nosepiece, remove it, use the camera in the main scope for Jupiter etc, then plonk it back into the guidescope and its focused!

Best guidescope....and it only weighs less than 500g....

I will post a photo later to show how I have it set up.

Cheers

Chris
Hey Chris how is the Orion Mini for picking up stars in feint area's of sky as a comparison with the Toucam?
I'd be interested to here your comments.

Nico.
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