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

Date: November 27, 2007 12:46:44 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Slightly OT:  Any "t-point" like software for Mac OS?

Hi all:

Well, I finally bit the bullet and figured if I waited until I had

time to make a set of guide scope rings the ground would be much

cooler to the touch and I'd be pushing daisies in some bone orchard

somewhere and not care anymore about imaging DSOs.

So, I bought a pair of Losmandy rings from Anacortes.  They arrove

last night, and I put my 80mm Megrez on the Nexstar 9.25" for some

comet Holmes imaging.

Oh, and I found my GPUSB, which had been "missing" since I got back

from OSP 3 months ago!!  (I just knew it would be somplace stupid, and

sure enough - it was in my laptop bag, sitting right next to my night

stand, all this time!.

So, I rigged everything up and took a few image sequences with the

flea2 on the Megrez, guiding with the flea on the 9.25".  It got late

though, so I will have to process them tonight.  But boy, has that

comet faded!

Anyway, to my question, but first I wanted to say that it was

wonderfully easy to get calibrated on a guide star and start imaging

away with Astro IIDC and the GPUSB gizmo.

My question is this:  I recently replaced my hand control for the

Nexstar with the upgradeable one, which had the latest version of the

driver installed already as shipped from Starizona.  I'm glad that I

can now re-sync on stars after long slews, but it seems that I can

only do so with the hand controller.  I use both Equinox 6 and Voyager

4 for sky views and scope control, but when I resync with the hand

control, both applications lose connection with the scope.  And when I

restart them and/or reconnect the scope, they don't sync on the

object, but show the scope's view being offset by the distance I moved

to resync.

I also have TheSky 6 on my PC (wish to heck they'd make a version for

Macs again!), but it can't sync either without purchasing t-point as well.

So, I'm aware of T-point from Bisque and MaximDL's similar routine

(but I can't remember what it's called), but they're both PC-only.

Does anyone know of any similar applications for Mac OS?

TIA,

-Tim.