Cheapest Autoguider

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:39 pm

Hi,

I recently juts realised that there are some marks on the edge of the glass cover on the sensor of my Nugget Autoguider. Contact me for pictures taken through Guidemaster. I have used up my 2MB quota. autoguiding is not affected and no pixels are spolit.

So this is going at the incredible low price of $350. At least 80mm guidescope is recommended and MaxIm DL is preferred. Although guidemaster does the job as well.

thanks for looking.

Post by **rcj** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:05 pm

why do u want to sell? it cannot guide properly? noisy? ST402ME next? hehe...

mrngbss · Post by **mrngbss** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:50 pm

I think he may be getting STL-11000 (with built guider and option for external guider) next.... !!! He has a very good low noise Lumenera too as his guider.

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:10 pm

The nugget can guide very well, in fact with MaxIm DL, it can hold autoguiding at least for 10mins.

Just that its quite noisy then I can't see very dim stars properly.

I am totally satisifed with the Lumenera guiding, even pointing at NGC 253, I do not need to adjust the guiderings and I still can have guide stars.

Post by **rcj** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:28 am

icic....thats good to hear! BTW, the QHY5 is working very fine with PHD guiding on my platform, thanks to you! i think it is the cheapest autoguider too! very soon Craig may have a version ready for intel macs, can't wait!

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:01 pm

Now the whole world knows who bought my QHY5, haha.

Hehe yes, then your mac setup will be ready!

The silly thing about the nugget is, in MaxIm DL, I can't find the gain adjustment, so I can't take longer exposures to get the dimmer stars. In Guidemaster, there is gain adjustment, but no screen stretch, so things are too high contrast that I can't see the dim stars.

Its noise is actually lower than DSI, slightly.