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Guiding #iEXOS-100 #astrophotography
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Daniel Burdziak
I use my iexos-100 with just a Rebel T6 dslr. Does anyone else not use a telescope, and guide? If so, how are you able to mount the guide camera to the iexos-100?
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Edwin <esanc001@...>
Daniel,
I was looking into this as well and saw this photo in the explore scientific fb group. You need a series of plates etc. but it can be done -- Edwin Sanchez Iexos-100 ed-80 triplet canon T6i
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brian skinner
Hi Daniel, at present I use just a DSLR but not guiding (yet). You can by a side by side saddle to mount 2 items next to each other, I.e your DSLR and guide scope/camera.
Brian
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Chris Tardif
Some are better at it than I am, but I was never able to get side-by-side balanced well enough for me. I found a longer dove tail with the guide scope mounted under worked really well. It's a much cheaper config too. You just need a long bar...long enough to make sure the guide camera doesn'tclip the mount.
-- Mounts: Explore Scientific IEXOS-100 w Celestron CG5 tripod, iOptron CEM 40 Scopes: Explore Scientific FCD-100 ED-102CF, Various Canon lenses, ZWO mini-guidescope, StarField 60mm guide-scope. Camera: ASI120MM Mini (mono), Altair GPCAM 130 Control PC: Intel NUC Loc: 44 -79
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Chris Tardif
Oh, I have also tried the L-bracket approach too as shown by Peter Zelinka: https://www.peterzelinka.com/blog/2019/4/auto-guiding-with-the-skyguider-pro
-- Mounts: Explore Scientific IEXOS-100 w Celestron CG5 tripod, iOptron CEM 40 Scopes: Explore Scientific FCD-100 ED-102CF, Various Canon lenses, ZWO mini-guidescope, StarField 60mm guide-scope. Camera: ASI120MM Mini (mono), Altair GPCAM 130 Control PC: Intel NUC Loc: 44 -79
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Huh... That looks pretty similar to the polar finder adapter for the iExos-100. If ES were to develop a variant of that adapter, that one could attach a guidescope to, that would answer it for the iExos-100 camera folks...
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 10:47, Chris Tardif wrote:
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Mounts: ES PMC-8 EXOS2
Scopes: SV 102EDT, ZWO 60/280 Guide
Cameras: Nikon D5300, Altair GPCAM2 290M
Software: ASCOM, CdC, AstroTortilla, BYN Pro, Sharpcap, PHD2 Computer: Thinkpad x230, Win7Pro/64
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM, Robert Hoskin wrote:
If ES were to develop a variant of that adapter, that one could attach a guidescope to, that would answer it for the iExos-100 camera folks...Hi Bob, I will add that to our list of Feature Requests on the Feature Request subgroup. Thanks! -- Jerry Hubbell Vice President of Engineering Explore Scientific, LLC. jrh at explorescientific.com www.explorescientificusa.com 1010 S. 48th Street Springdale, AR 72762 1-866-252-3811 Author: Scientific Astrophotography: How Amateurs Can Generate and Use Professional Imaging Data Remote Observatories for Amateur Astronomers: Using High-Powered Telescopes From Home Mark Slade Remote Observatory (MSRO) IAU MPC W54 Equipment Wilderness, VA Mounts: ES PMC-Eight G11 + Telescope Drive Master (TDM) Scopes: ES 165 FPL-53 ED APO CF, ES 102 FCD100 ED APO CF Cameras: QHY174M-GPS + FW, QHY163C Misc: 3-inch 0.7x Focal Reducer Field Flattener, Filters: Luminance, Red, V-band Photometric, Diffuser, 200 lpmm Spectral Grating Software: MaxIm DL 6, Cartes du Ciel, Astrometrica, AstroImageJ, AutoStakkert!
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brian skinner
Agree chaps, I particularly like the idea of the Polar scope adapted adaptor. Hopefully Jerry and his colleagues will develop this for when I am ready to make the leap to guiding!
Kind regards, Brian
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