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Orion guider's upgrade, Adel Kildeev

Orion guider's upgrade

Orion guider's upgrade, Adel Kildeev

Orion guider's upgrade

Description

While waiting for the clear skies, I decided to fix my guider. I noticed recent connection's problems loosing guiding. Yep, the cable was damaged near camera causing disconnections. I did also find the proper setup for Barlowx2's upgrade for the guider's scope. Interesting that just adding Barlow lens I cannot get focus whatsoever, so I found unused Orion extension tube in my boxes, but it gets also tricky. Extension tube should go AFTER the Barlow lens (not before) to get focus. Now I have nice guider scope 50/324 mm (F6.5) to use it with my APO and 8" ACF scopes. I tried OAG with ACF and failed, cannot get proper focus for both main camera and guider camera. With the upgraded guider I hope to guide ACF properly (2032 mm focal length is too long for a small guider).
P.S. With Orion refractor guider 80/400 the balancing of the APO is much easier, the focal length is almost the same, a lot of bright stars for guiding.

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Description: Moved the guider scope forward to have a better balance

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Description: The latest upgrade: I did find old Orion guider (used to guide my Newtonian 150/750), scope 80/400 (F6), bulky but reliable. I will use Orion mini scope with Barlowx2 with ACF, it does not have upper plank.

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Orion guider's upgrade, Adel Kildeev