Description
Keeping excess weight off of your astrophotography setup is always a good thing, and using the Orion StarShoot 32mm Mini Guide Scope will definitely help in this regard! Weighing in at only 9 oz. and just 5.8" long, this Mini Guide Scopeis perfect for accurate guiding of camera lenses or any relatively short focal length optically fast imaging telescopes.The 32mm Mini Guide Scope features a 32mm doublet objective lens with a focal length of 122mm (f/3.8). This will provide a very wide field of view with your guide camera, which means there will be plenty of stars for your guiding software to lock ontoand accurately track. The dovetail base slides into most all Orion brand telescope finder shoes and locks securely in place. The 6-point ring adjustment screws allow independent adjustment of the guide scope aim, but with today's sensitive autoguiders,it's doubtful you'll ever have to touch those screws. Focus is achieved by threading the objective lens forward and back and then locking down the threaded collar which will preserve the focus from session to session.There are two camera/visual back adapters included with the StarShoot Mini. First, a standard 1.25" female visual back with a brass compression ring so you can slip any autoguider with a 1.25" nosepiece into the guide scope. Or if your guide scope hasfemale t-threads, you can thread it directly onto the end of this adapter for a super secure fit. We are also including a c-mount adapter in case you have a guide scope such as our StarShoot Mini cameras. Simply unscrew the 1.25" adapter, and replacewith the c-mount adapter. Thread your c-mount camera on for a solid flex-free fit.A truly "set-it-and-forget-it" guide scope! Just attach your guide camera and focus it the first evening. Focus shouldn't change between nights, and with such a large field of view you'll never have to hunt for another guide star again!
