From: "milton_aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: June 17, 2005 5:46:51 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Birthday G5


Hi Sandy;


Congratulation on the iMac and a Happy Birthday to you..


I've already mentioned a few times to PGR that a mono EXview CCD

version of at least their Dragon Fly Express (at up 120 fps with Astro

IIDC) would be a nice product. In format 7 (which Astro IIDC does not

support), it tops out at 220 fps at 640x480 - which is 64 megabytes of

monochrome data per second. For the minitron to "keep" up, it would

need to run at 440 fields per second.


Unfortunately it probably won't work our of the box with Apples x86

offerings as they don't support FireWire 800.


Have a nice weekend (we are being drowned - 6+" of rain expected over

the next 24 hours, all rivers in full flood stage and tornado warning

too)..


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@outcastsoft.com

www.outcastsoft.com



--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, <sandy@v...> wrote:

Hi Milton,


Sherry surprised me with a fully tricked out 17" iMac.


To take advantage of your AltaVec (vic?) code, I plan to save for a 

'last-of-the-Mohicans' G4 laptop in a year or so to be able to run one 

of the FireWire cameras like the flea or such depending on the 

situation then.


Boy do I wish Pt. G or someone would do the work make a FireWire 

camera that uses an interlaced Sony EXview CCD like the one in the 

Mintron 12V1 with a 12 bit analog front end and an appropriate buffer 

to assemble the video frame.  I really want the sensitivity ...


I am working up to making, over the next year or two, a specialized 

12" or 15" f/3 DOB with Stellar CAT tracking and a CCD at prime focus. 

It will be a video only scope for occultations of the faint ones and, 

if cameras become available, pure digital recording.


Sandy