From: "astrobabb" <rbabb@nl.rogers.com>

Date: May 18, 2010 2:41:46 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Astro_IIDC and a new  camera

Hi, I am new to this group having stumbled upon IIDC on the net. I have been trying to get my MAC Book Pro to work with an autoguiding app without success.

I have an Orion Autoguider camera that I use to use with my wife's laptop PC but I wanted to get a MAC so I did.

The Orion camera does not have a mac driver to enable it and I thought I might be able to use my Mallincam Video camera set to 2 seconds but that did not pan out either. PHD has no capability to interface to the Video camera.

To make a long story shorter, I was poised to purchase a starfish camera or SBig autoguider when I happened across IIDC.

My thought is I could purchase the IIDC and one of those fleas and be in money and autoguide just as effectively as with the starfish or SBig autoguider cameras.

I realize the Fleas cannot compete with the starfish or SBig but I had no problems autoguiding with the Orion camera.

Any comments awe appreciated as I evaluate my choices.

Regards

Robert