guide scope is this ok?

[Daniel-K]

EQUINOX-66 PRO OTA F/400 Fluorite ED Apochromatic Refractor Telescope

like the look of these but is it ok for guiding or should i really get an 80?

[Zakalwe]

Overkill, IMHO (unless you have a massive budget).

Get a second hand Celestron or Skywatcher 8x50 finderscope, a £28 adapter ring from Modern Astronomy and a QHY5 camera. Job well and truly jobbed!

[Daniel-K]

oh ok lol

[Zakalwe]

The scope you were looking at is a fine scope for imaging, and would be (again IMHO) wasted as a guidescope.

What are you trying to achieve?

[Whippy]

The scope you were looking at is a fine scope for imaging, and would be (again IMHO) wasted as a guidescope.

What are you trying to achieve?

The beauty of using a scope like this is that not only will make a great guide scope, it can also double up as a widefield imaging scope. So you could have something like an ED80 and the Equinox 66 togther, one guides while the other images. Both are capable of doing double duty.

Tony..

[Veracocha]

Overkill, IMHO (unless you have a massive budget).

Get a second hand Celestron or Skywatcher 8x50 finderscope,

One in the for sale area right now.

[Daniel-K]

im so confused im trying to gather a imaging set up before winter kicks to do some dso photography spending around £300 a month till october to get it together any sugestions welcome

[RobH]

As already said, it will make not only an excellent guidescope, but also a great widefield imaging scope.

An 8x50 finder would be capable of guiding it, or an ED80, but for anything of much longer focal length than that it would be useless. You don't want to go much less than 1/3 of your imaging scope FL with your guidescope.

Rob

[nightvision]

Get a copy off 'Make every photon count' and it won't seem so confusing.

[Earl]

What scope are you planning to image with and what type of imaging?

[Daniel-K]

im ordering a the new sw200pds this month so i will be using that earl and i want to do deep sky

[Veracocha]

What mount? weight may be a factor? My bad, just seen your sig.

Based on this going forward I would be wary of sticking a frac (albeit small) onto this mount with a 200PDS.

[Psychobilly]

What guidecam... The Synguider is just about useless on a finderguider - QHY5 works a treat, it (the Synguider) was ok(ish) on my EQ66-Pro but came to life on an ST80...

I Use a 500mm f8 t mount telephoto and Meade DSI-1C for my guiding freeing up both "proper" OTA's for simultaneous imaging... I wanted ther extra FL in the guidescope as I also use the same setup to guide an 8" SCT working anywhere between 1280-4064mm FL