Bresser MikrOkular as guide camera.

[warpout]

Just purchased the above camera and I was wondering if I could use it as a guide camera using my bog standard SkyWatcher finder scope. Obviously I would need an adapter, do these adapters exist and if so, would the setup work? I'm not using SYNSCAN, I have dual stepper motor drive. I am new to guiding, so any help would be appreciated. 

[Cornelius Varley]

From the Bresser website

"The Bresser MikrOkular Full HD eyepiece camera can also be used as an autoguider, with an appropriate equatorial mount.  Both PHD and PHD2, the popular guiding packages, recognise this camera under their "Windows WDM-style webcam camera" autoguider setup option.  Simply pick this and scoll down to the bottom of the recognised camera menu - "Mikrokular" will be found on this list, once the camera is connected to a Windows PC.  As this camera does not have a dedicated ST4 protocol port, you would need to use a serial or serial/usb connection cable directly to the secondary control port on most Goto telescope's handsets."

To use the camera as a guide camera you need a handset with an ST4 port and also an autoguider interface to connect between the computer and handset.

[warpout]

Hi Cornelius Varley 

Thanks for your reply. I got all that information. What I wanted to know is can I use the finder scope as a guide scope, using an adapter to attach the camera. If so, where can I get said adapter?(if they exist) The adapters with the camera are for telescope eyepiece only. 

        Regards. 

              Clive. 

[BrendanC]

@warpout, did you get anywhere with this?

I have a Mikrokular too, whichI'm interested in using as a guide camera, and would also like to know whether there's a suitable scope & adapter for it.

Edited June 11, 2020 by BrendanC