From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: May 13, 2005 4:39:07 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Which Astroiidc option best?

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:

Hi Tim;

Yes your SOL with the current shipping version (1.02 or 1.03) of Astro 

IIDC - it will not recognize it as the internal names are different.

Actually I'm really surprised that the case says Fire-i and I'll 

contact you privately on where we go from here.

Only thing I can figure is that it was made under some sort of lisence agreement between 

Aplux and Unibrain, because I downloaded the driver for it from Unibrain's website, and 

the installer gave me the "Aplux 1394 Camera" "choice".  

-Tim.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.

Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5

1-(403)-229-9456

milton@o...

www.outcastsoft.com

On 12-May-05, at 10:04 PM, Tim wrote:

Okay, so that webcam I bought on ebay arrived today.  It didn't come 

with any software.

It not only looks like the Unibrain Fire-i on the outside, it says 

it's a Fire-i on the case.  So,

I went to Unibrain's website and downloaded the mac drivers for it 

(but supplied by

IOXperts).  The only option that came up for installation when I 

opened the driver installer

was "Aplux 1394 Camera", with "FireWire Unique ID:  0030956000000262" 

listed below

that.

So, does this mean I'm SOL (sheer out of luck) for using this camera 

with Astro IIDC?

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> 

wrote:

Hi Tim;

On 10-May-05, at 6:03 PM, Tim wrote:

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> 

wrote:

  > Not now with Apple's iSight out their. Actually shortly after 

Apple

did

  > the iSight, most companies stopped any future production them 

and

EOL'd

  > all of them. The only exception was Unibrain who are still 

producing

  > cameras.

  A while back, I did a search to see if anyone was using the 

iSight

for astroimaging (since I

  have one).  I only found one or two citations of people who 

tried it

at all - not quite

  enough encouragement for me to make an adapter to try mine on my

scope.  Well, that

  and the fact that my scope is more than 6 feet from the 

computer. 

But I'll probably fiddle

  with it at some point just for hoots.  Have to shoot afocally,

though, and probably pick the

  eyepiece projection magnification value high enough to overcome 

the 

autoexposure's

  tendency to saturate the image...   ...probably more hassle than 

it's

worth, in the end.

Also the iSight optics have auto focus - at least the current ones 

do.

  But I do wonder what might happen when the number of iSights out

there reaches a point

  where used units are low enough in price to see amateurs taking 

them

apart and tossing

  the lens assembly...   ...but again, probably not woth the 

effort.

It might cease functioning altogether, as the Autofocus will 

continue

to try and use the optical assembly and if you short out the

leads/motor in it.... BZZZZZZssstttt..

Also Astro IIDC doesn't support the iSight and your stuck with YUV

video coming out of those cameras - and that really blows for Astro

Imaging (bad image aliasing since it delivers YUV411 or YUV422).

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.

Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5

1-(403)-229-9456

milton@o...

www.outcastsoft.com

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