ACQUISITION AND (AUTO)GUIDING

• Finder telescope
• The Acquisition and Guider Units
  • Cassegrain A&G Unit
  • Prime Focus A&G Unit
• Using the Autoguiders
  • Introduction
  • Acquisition modes: Probe or Telescope?
  • Locating guide stars on Sky Survey plates
  • Locating guide stars at Prime Focus
  • Locating guide stars at the Cassegrain focus
  • Using guide stars of known RA and Dec
  • Using guide stars with known probe coordinates
  • Acquiring a guide star
  • Problems with guide-star acquisition