From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: December 7, 2007 11:26:38 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro IIDC Autoguiding Smile!
Hi Alberto;
On 7-Dec-07, at 11:10 AM, albe albo wrote:
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...
For depth of field stuff, recording a movie while changing the focus so you can see different layers works really well.
That's what the guys did for the StarDust Gel analyzer. They automatically recorded somewhere around 10,000 (maybe it was more) frames per 8 hour day using Astro IIDC and a motorized (both stage and focus) microscope on a Mac Mini. Then processed them for the next 16 hours.
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
Yep. All of those mirror type things are expensive and delicate little beasts. Making the code work too is not easy either, as Darryl Robertson has done adding A07/A08 support for SBIG in Equinox Image.
http://www.microprojects.ca/equinoximage.html
http://www.microprojects.ca/index.html
They have lot of nanopositioner for microscoping
(tolerance 1 angstrom).
Did you hear about them?
No I don't know of them specifically. I talked to a few microscopy people about adding support for some motorized stages, however most felt like it was not worth it.
Very interesting stuff.
A question on-the-fly: can i install QuickTime 7.2?
Apple now require it in order to run iWork 08 :-(
Yes and we tested with QT 7.2 / 7.3 too. If your recording color movies, you should install the Universal version 3.0 Bayer Codec for x86, which is included in the 3.02.03 disk image.
TTYL (Talk or Type To You Later)..
Milton J. Aupperle
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