Autoguiding: Selecting a good Guidescope and Camera for Astrophotography

In this astrophotography tutorial video, I'll explain what autoguiding is and show you how to select a good guide scope and a camera to start autoguiding.

Clear skies!

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0:00 intro
0:26 Why do I need autoguiding?
1:26 What is autoguiding?
3:24 What gear do I need for autoguiding?
4:55 How do I select a good guide scope?
9:24 Guidescopes and prices
14:09 How can I select a good guide camera?
15:59 Guide cameras and prices
24:45 Final thoughts

[ChucksAstrophotography]

Good info for people new in the hobby.

[PlayStore-migb]

HEY, It's Chuck in the comments! Hey man!! I watch both of you dudes! Far out!!!

[darthmarvin]

I use the altair astro starwave guiding bundle. I honestly did not pay attention to whether it was the best fit for my telescope, but it has worked for me so far.

[stevelo]

ZWO ASI120mini system; cheap, small fits into finder bracket and works great. A step up is a guide camera with larger chip for wider field of view such as the ASI174 mini (the 174mini has much large ccd and larger which provides a wider fov and less sensitive guideing), still using the 120mini scope (30mm can see a lot of stars). Stepping up to larger aperture scopes usually means higher focal length and much smaller field of view for the guidecam, and a lot more weight.
** great video!

[Aaron-snsn]

Excellent information here! I’m fairly new to the hobby, and didn’t know the guiding camera can be used for planetary imaging and the guide scope as a whole new wide angle imaging rig. Makes me feel better about making this investment.

[moemode]

This video is added to my favourites . Going to need this information soon. The TS photoline first . Thanks for your reply wido .Clear skies . Stephen 👍.

[황대웅-wd]

Great Video!
And about the right focal length for guide scope calculation... There is a section in the astronomy.tools that calculates the ratio mentioned in the video. It's under [Calculators] -> [Guidescope Suitability]. Shame that it doesn't tell you it's suitable or not, but it does tell you the ratio at least.

[Wheeljack]

This must be a sign. I've been looking at guide scope bundles all day.

[qxVp]

Having owned both I can say for certain the Orion 60mm and Svbony 106 are exactly the same scope. However the Svbony only costs 80-90 USD. I use the svbony 106 with the ASI120MM-c (Color) for guiding an 805mm OTA in Bortle 6-7. No issues what-so-ever. Thank you for posting the videos!

[alexisvirgen]

Thanks a lot for this videos! Best video explanation I found for this so far!!!

[karlk]

I have the ZWO F4 120mm guide scope and the ZWO ASI 174MM mini camera. This combination works really well, I have the ZWO 120MM mini but never got it to guide very well so got the 174 mono.

[MMIMC]

I use the ZWO ASI120MM mini guide camera and adapted Sky-Watcher 9x50 finder scope combination.

[martynh]

Wido, another informative and (for me) very useful video tutorial. When I save up enough for my EQ6-R pro mount, I’ll be looking at autoguiding for sure.

[ithil]

Guidescope: Lunatico Ezg-60 60/230 f3.8
Camera: Zwo Asi 224MC
Imaging scopes:
Refractor TS 102/520
Newtonian 200/1000

[crm.]

Skywatcher Evoguide 50 (with FF) + ASI290MM mini here. I’ve also used the former for imaging. Excellent review, thanks

[michaelm.]

Thanks for all of your informational videos. I have an AT102ED and the ZWO ASIAIR Plus, I'm using a ZWO ASI 224 color and a SVBONY SV165 Mini Guide Scope 30mm F4 for guiding. My problem is that it loops and then goes into "calibration" but never starts guiding ?? What am I doing wrong ? for advice you might Ohio

[michaelnixon]

I am using the SvBony SV106 60mm guide scope with a Bresser GPCMOS02000KPA Toupket camera and a SvBony 205 camera. The Bresser GPCMOS02000K is a bit to work with, i still do not know how to get images displayed on my laptop but I will keep trying. Thanks for the video!

[eugenedegoeij]

Mooi overzicht!
Heb de Evoguide en de ASI290mm mini net binnen dus ik kijk uit naar je volgende video!

[johnnydolve]

Hi Wido :) Thanks for your great and educative channel. May i ask you about two guide cameras i am interesstes in but not able to decide. Wich on will you recomend for 480mm guide scope and 2000mm focal lenght. ZWO ASI174MM mono or the Ultrastar pro mono from Starlight express ?? Kind regards Johnny Dolve from Norway

[tacomaastro]

I have the Skywatcher EVoGuide 50ED and ZWO ASI120MM on my William Optics Zenithstar 103 ( Meade LX85 mount ) and my Ioptron 200mm Photron RC (Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro mount ). I do have the Orion 50mm and 60mm Guide scopes but was not satisfied with the image clarity. Guiding has been spot on running 5 minute subs with the Meade LX85. I haven't had enough clear sky time to drag the EQ6-R out. Maybe this week... supposed to have 3 nights of clear sky.... in a