nikon DSLR as guide camera

[MikiSJ]

Does BYN support the use of a Nikon DSLR as a guide camera. I will be using a Nikon D5300 as the imaging camera. I have several older Nikon DSLRs that could be used as a guide camera in an OAG configuration.

[admin]

BYN does not guide so this is not a relevant question for BYN.

As far as I know no guiding software uses a DSLR for guiding. Remember that DSLR live view is not as sensitive as a ccd sensor so even if a guiding software would allow guiding with a DSLR I doubt that it would work given the lack of live view sensitivity.

Regards,

[astroman133]

Guide cameras usually have a small, sensitive sensor...Unlike a DSLR.

Guylain is right. It is not the camera that supports guiding. It is that the guiding software must support the camera.

[MikiSJ]

Thanks for your answers. I have been talked out of using the DSLR as a guide camera elsewhere on the interweb.