osastro Jun 19, 2014
It was Bernd Brinkman who helped me a while back with this one:
Hello Grant,
> >
> > > Hi Bill (and anyone else who knows the answer!),
> > >
> > > I find myself in the position of having a guidescope whose orientation is fixed,
> > > relative to my main field of view. Actually, right now I'm using an 80mm APO for
> > > primary imaging and an LX200 for guiding. Yes, you read tha the right way round.
> > >
> > > My APO is fixed very rigidly to the LX200, but is pointed about a degree or so
> > > east and a little south of the main FOV. Is there a way to set up double
> > > frames/reticles in Guide such that they're of appropriate sizes and maintain a
> > > fixed relative spacing/orientation?
> > >
> > > As you may surmise, this would be primarily for figuring out which targets even
> > > HAVE appropriate guide stars for me in my current configuration....
> >
> > yes there is. You have to create your own ccd camera in the file "ccds.nam" for
> > an english language Guide. The explanation how to do this is at the end of the
> > above mentioned file.
> >
> > As a starting point copy the line with your main camera and give it a new, not
> > already used ID number. Then you have to add the offset and size of the guider
> > chip. This will need some trial and error in your case, because you have
> > different focal lengths for your imaging and guider telescope. The units given
> > for the offset are the width and height of the main chip.
> >
> > I hope this information is sufficient for you to start with.
Clear skies
Bernd
Bernd Brinkmann
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They definitely don’t have to be centered on the same poin t– mine were about two degrees off in RA and half a degree in Dec and I got it to work.
Kind Regards/Viele Grüße,
Grant
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I think you have to set up the second camera as the guiding camera only with a bigger field and if both are centered to each other with no offset!
Konstantin
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Am 19.06.2014 um 18:19 schrieb 'Blair, Grant' g.blair@... [guide-user] <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>:
There is definitely a way to do this – I used to do it for my guide camera at the same time as my imaging camera.
Do I remember how to do it? Sorry, I do not. Hopefully somebody else does.Kind Regards/Viele Grüße,
Grant
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 12:17 PM
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Subject: [guide-user] CCD Field
Hello Users :)
I have a question:
Iám working with two camears on two diffrent teleskopes.
first Scope Newton 1186mm with Canon Eos 6D Fullframe
second Scope C11 HyperStar with Moravian G2-8300 CCD
I have put the two cameras into the Guide CCDs.nad :
Canon Eos 6D Cmos 6.58 6.58 5472 3648 1
G2-8300 Kaf8300 5.4 5.4 3362 2504 3
works fine, if i want to show one camera.
But i want too see the two CCD Fields at overlay into Guide, because i work with the two telecopes at ones.
Is there a way to do this ?