Page 1 of 1
Cheapest Autoguider
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:39 pm
by Meng Lee
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:05 pm
by rcj
why do u want to sell? it cannot guide properly? noisy? ST402ME next? hehe...
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:50 pm
by mrngbss
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:10 pm
by Meng Lee
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:28 am
by rcj
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!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:01 pm
by Meng Lee
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.