| Autoguiding revolutionizes long-exposure 35mm and CCD deep-sky imaging. Autoguiding automates the tiring process of manually guiding an exposure by staring endlessly into an illuminated reticle eyepiece and tweaking your mount's drive controls by hand to keep a guide star centered under the eyepiece crosshairs. The Orion StarShoot AutoGuider does the guiding for you electronically and automatically. In many cases, you don’t even have to be present at your scope while taking a long exposure deep space photo.
The Orion StarShoot AutoGuider provides a user-friendly, dedicated autoguiding system for long-exposure astrophotography. It's compatible with virtually any mount equipped with an off-axis guider body or photoguide telescope and an autoguider port. It comes with all the software and cables needed to work right out of the box!
The Orion AutoGuider's sensor is a high-resolution, 1/2” format, 1.3-megapixel CMOS monochrome chip, with 5.2µ x 5.2µ pixels in a 1280 by 1024 pixel array for highly accurate guiding. That high accuracy, due to the small pixel size, means you can use the AutoGuider with smaller, less expensive guide scopes than is possible with other guide cameras (such as the now-discontinued SBIG ST-4). A/D conversion is 8-bit for 256 grey scale steps, more than sufficient for guiding purposes. The chip is mounted in a compact anodized aluminum housing that measures just 2.5” in diameter by 2.35” long. It weighs a mere 4.4 oz.
The AutoGuider has a 1.25” nosepiece that can be removed to reveal a female T-thread interface. And the AutoGuider's short in-focus requirement of only 15mm from that of a typical 1.25" Plössl eyepiece makes it compatible with virtually any telescope.
The Orion AutoGuider's ease of use will appeal to beginning and experienced astrophotographers alike. The included software requires no previous knowledge of autoguiding. It offers automatic calibration and guiding with literally a single mouse click. The exposure range is from 0.5 to 10 seconds, assuring the ability to use even a faint star for guiding purposes.
The camera is powered via your computer's high-speed USB 2.0 connection with the included 10’ USB cable. No other power source is needed. A 6’ RJ-12 cable connects the AutoGuider to your mount via an ST4 compatible output jack on the camera body without the need for an additional RS-232 adapter. The Orion AutoGuider requires a PC running Windows 2000, XP or Vista.
With the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider, precision auitomatic autoguiding for long-exposure deep-sky photography is now easier and more economical than ever before. | 
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