From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>
Date: November 28, 2007 7:28:23 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Slightly OT: Any "t-point" like software for Mac OS?
Hello to all,
i bought Parallels since the first release and it runs
pretty fast and stable but i found a very weak and
slow USB support.
VMWare seems more robust (even if it is a younger
product) and my USB Philips cameras are fully
supported at very high speed.
In addition i can switch from mac to pc and back and
my USB camera could be alternatively used on both
systems without restarting.
For example i set the Toucam firmware to RAW on the
pc and then i used the upgraded camera on the mac,
after a while i returned to normal firmware on VMWare
PC and i used the camera on the mac.
I never had to disconnect the USB plug
Unfortunately VMWare doesn't support firewire at all
while i don't know what Parallels does with firewire.
Did someone test it?
Greetings to all
Alberto
PS: For the moment i excluded bootcamp only because i
don't like the idea to reboot the mac in order to have
a PC...
since my whole digital life reside on my Macs i like
to share the 2 worlds never ecluding the MacOS.
--- Tim <tjp314@pacbell.net> wrote:
Hi Joe:
Hm, I've never heard of VMware. Any reason for
choosing it versus
Parallels or Bootcamp? I realize that bootcamp can
only run one OS at
a time, so that's probably the reasoning there.
I have one x86 mac at home at this point, a mini.
My powerbook is a 2
year old G4. When I bought it, I also bought
Virtual PC so I could
run some PC programs on it, but TheSky6 is so slow
that I wind up
crying so much I can't see what I'm doing at the
computer!
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "joedaglen"
<astro1pops+yahoo@...>
wrote:
Hi Tim,
I have a MacBook Pro running Tiger. I run three
PC programs (The
Sky, which includes T-
Point, Images Plus, and PhD Guiding) for most of
my imaging. I use
VMware to run
Windows XP and have no difficulty running any PC
program. In fact
the drivers were easier
to install on my Mac than they were on my Dell
desktop when I used
it previously in my
observatory. The Sky is being rewritten and will
be available some
time next year for the
Mac.
Have a good day,
Joe Daglen
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tjp314@>
wrote:
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.
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