Bad news: it cannot be used to guide as a stand alone guider. Nor can it guide using Pictorview

Two items:

1. What configuration were you going to use (e.g., film piggybacked on LX200, off axis guider, piggybacked guider)? The 201 is sensitive enough with the first and the last.

2. If enough people ask, I think Meade will add the feature to the 416. Let me know by private e-mail if you send the request for this capability to Meade. I can then suggest it as well.


Ralph




Triumph Driver wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> New lister here. Have had an 8" LX-50 for about a year, but now I am
> thinking about a 10 or 12" LX-200. I have been doing manually guided film
> astrophoto work with my LX-50, and a little bit with a modified QuickCam and
> a PC23 video cam. But now I am thinking that when I get the LX-200 I should
> just go ahead and get a CCD Astrocam at the same time. To that end I have
> been burning brain cells trying to sift through the mounds of info on the
> web. I have seen the SBig vs Meade Vs Starlight vs whatever fights. I have
> heard of some problems with the 416XT and the SCSI bus. But I am still
> considering an 416XT.
>
> I have one question that I have not been able to find an answer to. Can the
> 416XT be used as a guider when I do film work?
>
> I know that Meade intends the user of the 416 to use the 201 as a guider
> when imaging with the 416, but I am thinking that during film work the more
> sensitive 416 would be more desirable than the 201. Since the 201/208/218
> are intended to be self contained guiders, how would the 416 be used to
> guide?
>
> TIA
> Darrell
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