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Old 06-02-2012, 05:56 PM
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Nico13 (Ken)
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Originally Posted by stardust steve View Post
yeah nice couple of images there ken. Love the Eta Carinae with the beaut colour and some star clusters? included also. I would like to see some pics/specs on your home made guider, it loos like its working good to me being able to cap those exposures.
No probs Steve,

Here is the guts of it.

Basically a Phillips Toucam, my lens adaptor and pick a lens for the job.

And here it is mounted on a tempry fitup until I make an alingable mount for it.
The problem I was having was sorted by increasing the calibration step size to around 2000 and this varies a bit depnding on what lens is fitted to the unit.

The more accuracy I need the longer lens I fit as it will accept all the SLR lenses I have from wide to tele but I've found the 135 works pretty good. If I need a few more stars in the field I just fit a wider lens.

I do still have issues finding a guide star in very low light areas of sky like when working on the LMC.
Still have to do something about that but not sure what as yet.

Ken
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