From: "Mark Gaffney" <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: March 3, 2008 2:41:21 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Auto-Guiding and photography..


--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:


Hi Mark;


On 3-Mar-08, at 2:11 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:


SBIG make a self guiding camera, the ST-2000XCM but you`re  

probably right about

exhorbitant pricing on this and the Dage-MTI cameras! By the way I  

eventually managed

to basically polar align by printing a FOV chart in Astroplanner  

and reversing it twice!

Mark.



It's not a simple single camera.


http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/st2000xcm_new.htm


It has 2 CCD's in it, one for imaging and one for guiding.


HTH..


Milton J. Aupperle


I`ve emailed the local distributor of SBIG cameras for a price. I`ll also look into pricing 

on PGR cameras like the Flea and Flea 2 today. I seem to remember that PGR have an Asian 

but not an Australian distributor?! Mark.