Although the price far exceeds the other guide scopes, it will offer you a chance to use the EVOguide as a portable, main imaging scope to shoot wonderful widefield astroscapes of the night sky. If you want to think outside the box, a high-quality Sky-Watcher EVOGuide 50ED guide scope is a doublet guide scope with high-quality FPL-53 glass. As for higher quality cameras, you may want to consider the ZWO ASI290mm or the ASI178mm (or its QHY 5-III 290/178 equivalents) if you are looking for a guide camera that can also be used as a high-quality lunar and planetary camera. If you are willing to pay a bit extra, you may want to consider guide scopes with longer focal lengths such as the Orion 60mm guide scope ($169) or the Primalucelab 60mm compact guide scope (S185) – which also come with solid mounting rings and a dovetail rail. For this price, you can achieve very decent guiding at 4.77″ per pixel which is enough to accurately guide telescopes with a focal length up to about 1000mm.
Here’s a short summary if you’re in a hurry:Īn affordable way to start autoguiding is to buy the Orion 50mm mini guide scope ($99) with an ASI120MM mini guide camera at $149 (or its QHY 5L-II equivalent) – this combination will cost you about $250. Next, I’ll discuss several guide scopes and cameras that are available on the market today. But what gear do you need to get started? In this blog, I get into what autoguiding is and why you need it for astrophotography. Without it, you’ll end up with smeared objects and elongated stars. Autoguiding is pretty much required when you want to take long exposure pictures of deep-sky targets.
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