From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: February 10, 2008 5:19:19 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Focusing

Hi Mark;

There are 2 things your missing.

1) FireWire is not supported under PC Emulation(i.e. Virtual PC) at all.

2)  For focussing to work, you need to access what the Camera sees.  So you need quit Astro IIDC (so it releases the camera) and then focus under ASCOM with a 3rd party application that can talk to FireWire Cameras (ASCOM doesn't support FireWire),  and then switch back to Astro IIDC.

Also, unless you have very steady skies, auto focus doesn't work really well at high frame rates.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

On 10-Feb-08, at 5:03 PM, gaffney.mark wrote:

If Joe has some way of running Windows on his Mac, then focusing the telescope should 

be an independent process to those already provided by Astro IIDC for CCD camera 

control. I haven`t tried this in practise as I said but Joe should be able to switch readily 

from his focuser window ( running through Ascom on Windows) to Astro IIDC on Mac OS X. 

I tried downloading Ascom I think with Safari but the file wouldn`t transfer readily to those 

I have running through Virtual PC for Mac, that`s why I`m suggesting the download be 

done with Internet Explorer (if available!) Mark.