From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: December 2, 2009 6:41:56 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: CRG..OAG..iBook etc.

I was going to do some experiments with the offsets of my Celestron Radial Guider tonight & was partly set up when I realised my 10 metre firewire cable was already in use burning something. I want to try it with the Moon & the Scorpion CCD but have found it won`t connect simultaneously with another camera to my small unpowered Unibrain repeater/hub. The Flea 2 & DBK cameras will connect to this hub together however. So what I`d have had to do is connect the Scorpion to my iBook by 5 metre FW cable & Astro IIDC then connect my Flea 2 to my indoors Mac Mini & Astro IIDC or (perhaps) the DBK to Metaguide & my indoors PC by the 10 metre FW cable. The offsets can probably be gauged by Sky Tools 3 Pro by changing the offsets for the FOV`s in it`s camera control window (I have a setting for the two cameras ready). My set-up with 2 copies of Astro IIDC on the same computer is a bit foiled at present (unless perhaps I try to obtain a power connector for the repeater) & definitely foiled by having the 10 metre cable part way through this burning process! I finally got my new 250 GB HD drive installed on the iBook by FW targeting the iBook from the Mac Mini & cloning the old HD info from my Lacie external HD to it using CCC ( kindly directed to this app by Terry Redding). This was then bootable. I`ve had a few glitches though like an installation disc which got stuck in the inbuilt optical drive of the iBook & couldn`t be removed due to a very tight screw on the lid of the OD & more recently the internal speakers of the iBook have stopped working (not the headphone socket though)..I must have dismantled & put the iBook back together about 10 times!

Mark.