Re: Second CCD frame?

Lawrence Harris Mar 5, 2008

The guider chip has a fixed relative position. I cannot see anywhere in Guide
where one can be activated. The menu option only offers one (main) camera frame
- no guide camera - hence my query. I can find no reference to this in the
manual.

Lawrence

>Re: Second CCD frame?
> Posted by: "Bernd Brinkmann" bernd.brinkmann@... b48doher
> Date: Wed Mar 5, 2008 12:31 am ((PST))
>
>Hello Lawrence,
>
>> Do we already have - or could we have a second CCD camera frame available and
>> offset? I want to set up a guide camera frame near to the main CCD frame to
>> anticipate an guide star finding difficulties - of which I have a lot!
>
>do you mean a guider chip with a fixed separation and orientation (as many of
>the SBIG cameras have) or a second independant camera? For the first case
>your problem is solved. The CCD guider chip frames are included in Guide.
>