From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: July 23, 2009 10:07:49 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Just starting


Hi Terry,

 

TIS is The Imaging Source. Do you have your Astro IIDC icon there? It`s a light bluish Moon symbol with cameras inset in the corners. Go to Applications & check if it`s there-then give it a double click. If you`re not getting that it must be some problem with your installation. Best wait `til Milton responds in that case?! 


Mark

On 24/07/2009, at 1:55 AM, Terrence Redding wrote:



Hi Mark.


Good to hear from you again.  What does TIS stand for?  I have the DMK21AF04.AS connected via the firewire cable that came with it to the iMac.  I can find no indication that it is connected.  I am going to connect it to another computer - the one in the observatory and see if it is a port problem on the iMac.  Then I will swap out the cable, as soon as I find another one, and if that is it.


Terry - W6LMJ


Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. RTN

http://olt.net/learningstyle/Site_2/Learning_Style_Research.html

How do amateur astronomers learn?



On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Hi Terry, 

I presume you`ve connected the TIS camera via firewire cable to the FW port on your Mac. You should get iChat opening straight away. Cancel that by going to iChat in the menu bar & Quit iChat. Open Astro IIDC (put it in the Dock for convenience) go to the camera window in the menu bar & Open Camera. Then press Start Video. You should get a Video Preview window come up. You won`t get anything marvellous inside but presuming you point the camera at a light source (say a desklamp) you should see the Video Preview window light up...?


Mark.

On 23/07/2009, at 11:40 PM, Terrence Redding wrote:



Good morning.


A few weeks ago I decided to spend this year taking world class images of Jupiter and the planets.  The desire came out of a need to video record a low noise occultation of two of Jupiter's moons. I believe imaging Jupiter and the other planets in between occultation efforts will prove to be a very satisfying use of my observational time.


 I added to the plan a desire to also take the images using a purely Mac solution. I have a 14" LX200R on a Milbron Wedge in a backyard observatory.  I am in West Palm Beach, Florida with flat skies at a latitude of about 26 degrees.  Go is at about  6 degrees, so he has a 20 degree advantage in location while I have an additional 3" in aperture.  Christopher Go is one of the accepted experts in this area and so to simplify my effort I decided to duplicate his optical path which led me to acquiring the DMK21, the Powermate 2.5X and a powered filter wheel, along with a selected set of optical filters.  The decision to do this project as a pure Mac only effort led me to Astro-IIDC.


Last night I decided to install the software on a MacBook Pro, and went through the process of downloading, generating the serial number, and purchasing the software.  Then I decided to cable up and test the camera inside the house to start working my way through the menu and Help files.  Sadly, the software did not see the camera.  My home Macs are mostly Intel based.  However, based in recent discussions here, I have resurrected a G4 Mini Mac for use in astronomy.  It should be here in two days.


I am looking for suggestions on how to proceed.  is the problem with the computer, camera, cable, or software?  Suggestions on how to test each would be greatly appreciated.


Terry - W6LMJ


Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. RTN

http://olt.net/learningstyle/Site_2/Learning_Style_Research.html

How do amateur astronomers learn?