From: "inchmak" <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: August 28, 2006 11:35:57 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: New prospective user

Hi everyone,

My name is Ray and I'm a very keen Mac User and also a planetary imager. I'm a graphic 

designer by profession so love my G5 and other Macs so I'm very pleased that there is 

software to enable me to use Macs for my hobby. I'm intending to purchase a DMK 21F04 

and a True Technology filter wheel to do both mono (Sun and Moon) and colour (the 

Planets) imaging. Currently I use a Philips ToUcam on a laptop PC using K3CCD Tools and 

Registax. My telescopes are a brand new Celestron C9.25 for lunar and planetary, a Meade 

AR5 5" refractor with a Herschel wedge and Baader Solar continuum filter for white light 

Sloar imaging and a Coronado Maxscope40 for Ha I also use a Nikon CP4500 foe Lunar 

and Solar portraits.

A question - apart from acquiring my images from the DMK 21F04 does Astro IIDC offer 

alignment and stacking or do I need to use Keith's Image stacker? Also is there a wavelets 

type of system within Astro IIDC?

Does the group approve of my choice in camera BTW

ATB 

Ray Byrne