6 Aug
2008
6 Aug
'08
11:39 a.m.
David, That's a really neat idea to use the polar alignment scope coupled to an autoguiding camera to control drift. I wouldn't have thought the polar drift was sufficient around a high latitude polar star to accurately regulate drift of a target object near the celestial equator. It looks similar in principle to SBIG's seeing camera box, that works by taking a continuous image of Polaris. Again, some pretty imaginative engineering. Hope to see more of it as the product becomes commercially distributed. - Kurt P.S. - The manufacturer website has too much of an "underconstruction" feel to it. Neither of the two European dealers listed on the manufacturer's website actually list the product.