Deluxe off-axis guider

Name: Orion Deluxe off-axis guider
Brand: Orion
Price: 180.29 USD

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Product description

The Orion Deluxe Off-Axis Guider lets you image and guide simultaneously through the same telescope
Eliminates the need for a separate guidescope while imaging, saving equipment weight and setup time
Imaging and guiding through a single telescope eliminates tracking problems such as differential flexure and mirror shift
Compatible with autoguiders featuring T-threads or 1.25" nosepiece, as well as 1.25" illuminated reticle eyepieces
Attaches to any 2" focuser via the included 2" nosepiece, or onto any T-thread equipped rear-cell
Includes T-extensions of three different lengths (7mm, 17mm, and 30mm) to accomodate different camera/guider combinations
Features prism tilt adjustment and more than 100 degrees of radial adjustment for easy guide star location
Built-in coarse and helical fine-focus adjustments allow focus of autoguider relative to camera
Requires a minimum of 59mm inward focus travel

The Orion Deluxe Off-Axis Guider lets you image and guide simultaneously through the same telescope
Eliminates the need for a separate guidescope while imaging, saving equipment weight and setup time
Imaging and guiding through a single telescope eliminates tracking problems such as differential flexure and mirror shift
Compatible with autoguiders featuring T-threads or 1.25" nosepiece, as well as 1.25" illuminated reticle eyepieces
Attaches to any 2" focuser via the included 2" nosepiece, or onto any T-thread equipped rear-cell
Includes T-extensions of three different lengths (7mm, 17mm, and 30mm) to accomodate different camera/guider combinations
Features prism tilt adjustment and more than 100 degrees of radial adjustment for easy guide star location
Built-in coarse and helical fine-focus adjustments allow focus of autoguider relative to camera
Requires a minimum of 59mm inward focus travel

Our expert comment:

To ensure that the guide camera/eyepiece and imaging camera are both in focus, it may be necessary to clamp one of them to the eyepiece barrel at a different position. A 'homo focal ring' (Product No. 10610) is useful here.

An extension tube is also sometimes required, e.g. from Lumicon.

(Bernd Gährken)

An extension tube is also sometimes required, e.g. from Lumicon.

(Bernd Gährken)