From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: December 7, 2007 11:10:34 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro IIDC Autoguiding Smile!

Very good  Milton,

it's nice to hear that.

Anyway... i own a microscope  too if necessary!  ;)

:)) ROFLMAO

Talking about microscopy:

I always loved the idea to find a "lamellar" light in

oder to illuminate slice after slice and eventually

rebuild the whole image with infinite depth of

field...maybe it do exist since centuries...

Recently i had the insane idea to build a tilting

mirror to use with AstroII DC instead of driving the

motors of the mount (read AO7-like) so i found a

company called Phisik Instrument especialist in

nano-piezo-actuators for Microscopy and other stuff

including adaptive optics..

http://www.physikinstrumente.com/en/index.php

They sell whatever we could need.... the smallest

mirror tilting was priced approx 15.000 US$. ROFLMAO

AGAIN

They have lot of nanopositioner for microscoping

(tolerance 1 angstrom).

Did you hear about them?

Very interesting stuff.

A question on-the-fly: can i install QuickTime 7.2? 

Apple now require it in order to run iWork 08   :-(

Thanks and regards

Alberto

Now

--- Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com> wrote:

Hi Alberto;

On 7-Dec-07, at 4:49 AM, albe albo wrote:

--- Snipped for brevity -----

Milton i know that you are mentally honest so

please

explain to me if your happiness about  Microscopy

market is in opposition to Amateur Astronomers

that

you don't like so much as microscopers (because

microscopers  are PRO and not Amateur like many of

us)

Am i victim of a huge misunderstanding or you

wrote

the last sentence trying to be really "cold" about

a

part of your customers?

That wa snot my intention.  I was just pointing out

that the only  

growth that I'm seeing is in microscopy users. The

bulk of the new  

features I have added in Version 4 are largely for

Astronomy people,  

but it's the microscopy people who are buying most

of the copies. And  

it's a good thing because sales growth helps fund

new features and  

helps keep things moving forward. If sales stagnate

and no one wants  

it, what's the point in continuing development.

Hope that explains it.

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application)

Specialist

#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.

Calgary Alberta T2R0N5

1-(403)-229-9456

milton@outcastsoft.com

www.outcastsoft.com

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