Direct Guide™ - No Autoguider Cables Required!

Software Bisque's Direct Guide is an exclusive technology that is available to Paramount ME and CCDSoft Version 5 users.

 

Autoguiding a telescope mount has traditionally required the use of an autoguider cable, camera relays and an autoguider port. The autoguider cable is connected to the CCD camera's camera relays and to the telescope's autoguider port. During autoguiding, corrections to the telescope's position are made by activating relays on the camera, which send a signal through the autoguider cable to the telescope's autoguider port.

 

Guiding via camera relays, autoguider cables and telescope guider ports with the Paramount ME:

 

 

Now there is Direct Guide

 

Direct Guide eliminates the need for camera relays and often unreliable autoguider cables by making telescope position corrections directly to the telescope.

 

If you own the Paramount ME Robotic Telescope System and use a camera that is supported by CCDSoft Version 5, then autoguider cables, camera relays and the Paramount ME's autoguider port are not required to perform precision autoguiding.

 

How is this Possible?

 

Configure CCDSoft Version 5 to use Direct Guide instead of Camera Relays.

 

As with traditional autoguiding, CCDSoft determines the exact correction required to maintain precision tracking based on the centroid of a star. Rather than sending this correction as an open-loop electronic pulse out the camera's relay port and then through the autoguider cable to the telescope's autoguider input, CCDSoft commands TheSky6 Professional Edition to precisely move Paramount ME instead.

 

Sending autoguider corrections directly to the telescope, rather than through the CCD camera's autoguider relay port results in improved autoguiding, and eliminates the possibility of autoguider cable snag, cable failure and other potential autoguider relay cable issues.