From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: February 15, 2010 5:13:32 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] new group...

Milton, 

I thought it might have possibilities anyway, perhaps take some of the heat off you in it`s own way if they were to take Mac users under their wing. 

A bit OT again but there`s some discussion on the Celestron ASGT group this morning about the CG-5 tracking the Sun for lengthy periods. Since we`ve discussed this topic recently... Uncle Rod is citing a 1' error for it at this time span if correctly polar aligned..It dosen`t have any PEC correction of course..

Mark.

On 16/02/2010, at 10:55 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Mark;

Your message was delayed because Yahoo Groups thought it was spam. I
had to manually clear it before it would be passed on to the list.
Several of your messages have been thrown in the Spam list.

Also the Sim CCD web site they list on the Yahoo Group works
intermittently (it failed 3 times for me, then loaded, then failed to
load again). I don't to see how this is of much interest to Mac
people, as it's a Windows only Alpha app - which I suspect is looking
for beta testers for a commercial product. It's off topic for our
list (read the Astro IIDC Description if you've forgotten what this
site is about) and it was also off topic for the list it showed up on
(SCT-Users).

I've had a few people leave the list lately because of all the off
topic noise, so lets try and keep it on target.

Milton Aupperle

On 15-Feb-10, at 4:23 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

> My last message was a little delayed & I think Antonio was on the job
> straight away! There`s a new group looking for support for continued
> existence called Sim CCD. The idea I understand is to simulate your
> CCD`s for estimations of their optimum use. I`ve joined but there`s a
> few downloads to begin with which my internet connection is going to
> have trouble with this time of month. So I`m yet to see if Astro
> IIDC`s firewire cameras will be catered for..Anyway here a link to
> this group if any of you are interested...
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/simccd/