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Old 27-01-2012, 11:31 AM
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A 135 mm lense at F2.8 will give FL of 378mm

toucam has 5.6um pixels at 640 x 480 you get an image scale of 3.05 arc sec per pixel with FOV of 24.4 x 32.6 arc min


My guider setup is 210mm fl at f3.5. In order to callibrate this in PHD my calibration setting is 2500 assuming a guide rate of .5x sidereal

You dont need longer focal legth to guide your setup. see this article here:
http://www.wilmslowastro.com/tips/autoguiding.htm

with 5.6um pixels assuming you were aiming for 1 arc sec per pixel resolution anything greater that 190mm FL will do the job. (Thats assuming a mediam level of centroid accuracy. Ie between best and worst)

You may find you have to defous your guide camera very slightly if your guide star is only a few pixels wide as to calculate the centroid accurately the guide star shoudl be spread nicely across 4 - 6 pixels.
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