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An off-axis guider attaches between the telescope tube and the camera. A small prism “picks off” a small amount of the light and directs it to a reticle eyepiece. The eyepiece image is generally less bright than that in a guidescope, but errors due to flexure between the main scope and the guidescope and due to mirror-shift in the main telescope are eliminated.
