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

Date: November 9, 2005 10:03:06 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Camera for guiding

David:

Well, I only tried it once, and once I'd activated it on the first

computer, I was not able to install it on the 2nd.  I'll take another

look at that, to see if it might have been something else that

prevented it from installing.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "David Illig" <yag@d...> wrote:

Much of what you have said is obviously true, or is your opinion, so

I can't quibble with it.

I will point out one small factual error, however -- Adobe CS2,

including Photoshop, may 

be installed on two computers. The license, as before, permits

operation one computer at 

a time.

David

Tim:

As a professional, I've used Photoshop since version 1.6.  It's a

great program, but it's 

rather expensive (and nowadays, you can't install it on more than

one computer, 

whereas 

before you just couldn't RUN it on more than one computer at a

time).  

For home use, particularly on my PC so far, I've downloaded the

GIMP  (http://

www.gimp.org/), which has many photoshop functions but is free. 

It's available for Mac 

OS X as well, but I've not been able to get it to install on my

new Powerbook with 10.4 

yet 

(get a "needs X11" message, but I can't install that from Apple

due to another error I get 

but can't recall at the moment).  

As far as Registax on the Mac.  I've used Registax on my PC with

my ToUcam Pro for the 

past few years before I saw the note in S&T about Astro IIDC. 

Since it became available, 

I've not taken the ToUcam out of the box, though for the first few

months, I had only an 

Aplux firewire camera to work with.  

I've experimented with processing videos taken with the color Flea

camera and 

processed 

in Astro IIDC, versus Registax 3 (after exporting as AVI files and

running Registax via 

Virtual PC on my Mac), and I will say that I get much better

quality images via Astro IIDC 

than I can with Registax.  I haven't tried the video software that

shipped with the 

camera, 

though (for PCs), and it is possible that the results might differ

that way.

Over all, though, I find Astro IIDC to be more user-friendly and

capable than Registax, 

so 

I've not felt much of a pull to fall back on Registax since I

really got serious with the Flea 

and Astro IIDC.

-Tim.