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Originally Posted by alpal
Thanks Marc for the photos of your setup.
Does it use 2 guide cameras - one for the Lodestar OAG
& another in the SX-AOL ?
It would certainly be a difficult system to setup on a portable mount
but it must be a great feeling to have it all working?
cheers
Allan
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Hi Allan, the only guide camera is the lodestar on a pick up prism. It's behind the AO which is only a big 10mm piece of glass and in front of the imaging camera which has the Ha filter on it. The lodestar takes a picture of a guide star 5 times per second through the glass plate and the glass plate tilts to recenter the star when it moves. When the star goes out of the tilt range of the glass plate, then the mount is bumped into guiding mode to recenter the star then falls back into tracking.