Feature

●Compact mini guide scope designed for use with astrophotography telescopes up to 1500mm focal length
●Mini 50mm guide scope with bright, wide-field optics puts numerous potential guide stars in view so youll never have to search for one!
●Adjustable-aim dovetail guide scope bracket installs on virtually any astrophotography telescope quickly and easily
●Very small and compact autoguiding system adds hardly any weight to an astrophotography setup and can conveniently be stashed in an accessory case between uses
●Designed for use with Orion StarShoot AutoGuider (sold separately) and other similar small-chip CCD autoguiders


Description

Orion Mini 50mm Guide ScopeOrion Mini 50mm Guide Scope
Orion Mini 50mm Guide ScopeOrion Mini 50mm Guide Scope
Optical design Refractor
Optical diameter 50mm
Focal length 162mm
Focal ratio f/3.2
Coatings Fully coated
Resolving power 3.32arc*sec
Lowest useful magnification 9x
Finder scope None
Mount type Optical Tube without Mount
Astro-imaging capability Lunar, planetary & long exposure
Tube material Aluminum
Length of optical tube 6.8 in.
Weight, optical tube 1.0 lbs.

The Orion-designed Mini 50mm Guide Scope is a complete and compact guide scope solution designed for use with the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider (sold separately) or similar small-chip CCD autoguider devices. The Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope is ideal for guiding long-exposure astrophotographs with imaging telescopes up to 1500mm in focal length.

Thanks to the high level of guiding accuracy offered by modern autoguider devices such as the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider, astro-imagers of today can use guide scopes with much shorter focal lengths and smaller apertures compared to the large, bulky models used in the past. Using a more optically fast refractor as a guide scope can save astro-imagers time, space, and money, but will still provide the unrivaled accuracy that only auto-guiding can bring to long-exposure astrophotographs.

Our new Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope brings auto-guiding into the realm of affordability for any astro-imager, and brings the guide scope to a position that was previously occupied by a telescope finder scope.