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The other camera connection is for a USB cable that runs to a laptop.just two cables are needed to run the auto-guiding system.' There's an RJ-12 jack on the camera, allowing it to connect directly to the mount with a single, simple cable. 'A nice feature of the StarShoot is its simple cable connections. The resulting photos showed well-tracked, pinpoint stars.' It was simple to set up and start guiding accurately. 'Orion's StarShoot AutoGuider worked great. The StarShoot AutoGuider is supplied with powerful yet easy-to-use software.'Īustralian Sky & Telescope Magazine - November/December 2008 'The StarShoot AutoGuider from Orion Telescopes & Binoculars is so affordable that now even casual astrophotographers can justify the cost of being freed from the tedium of manually guiding a telescope during long exposures. AutoGuider is not recommended for use as a stand-alone imaging camera.

#Astroguider Pc

Requires Mac computer running OS X, or PC running Windows 8/10/11 Operating Systems. With the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider, precision autoguiding for deep-sky photography is now easier and more economical than ever. A 6' RJ-12 cable is also included to connect the AutoGuider to the mount without the need for an additional RS-232 adapter. The StarShoot AutoGuider is powered via your computer's high-speed USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 connection with the included 5' USB cable no other power source is needed.

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PHD Guiding has been ranked as the #1 guiding software in the 2007 'AstroPhoto Insight' magazine. It offers automatic calibration and guiding with literally a single mouse click. The included PHD Guiding software requires no previous knowledge of autoguiding.

We've included highly acclaimed PHD Guiding software for the most intuitive and user-friendly autoguiding experience. The StarShoot AutoGuider's incredible ease of use will appeal to beginning and experienced astrophotographers alike.

On top of that, the StarShoot AutoGuider's short inward focus requirement of only 15mm from a typical 1.25' Plossl telescope eyepiece makes it compatible with virtually any telescope. It has a 1.25' nosepiece that can be removed to access a T-thread interface. The chip resides in a super-compact, anodized aluminum housing that measures just 2.5' wide by 2.35' long and weighs a mere 4.4 oz. That high accuracy due to the small pixel size means you can use the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider with smaller, less expensive guide scopes than what's possible with other guide cameras (such as the now-discontinued ST-4). The StarShoot AutoGuider is built around a high-resolution, 1/2' format 1.3-megapixel CMOS monochrome chip, with 5.2µ x 5.2µ pixels for highly accurate guiding. It's compatible with virtually any mount equipped with an autoguider port and comes with all the software and cables needed to work right out of the box! The Orion StarShoot AutoGuider provides a user-friendly, dedicated autoguiding camera for long-exposure astrophotography. Until now, the problem has always been the lack of a simple, affordable autoguider camera to do the job.

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Visit the StarShoot AutoGuider product support section to download software and drivers.Īutoguiding has revolutionized the capture of deep-sky astro-images by mechanizing the tedious and tiring method of 'manually' guiding an astrophotography exposure, which involved staring endlessly into an illuminated reticle telescope eyepiece while vigilantly tweaking your mount's electronic drive controls by hand to keep the stars pinpoint sharp.

#Astroguider mac os

Now Mac compatible with Intel-based Mac computers! Software and drivers are now available for use of the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider with Apple computers running Mac OS X.