From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: April 21, 2012 12:01:50 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] "Test" M65 & M66 image, Flea2

Hi Tim;

On 21-Apr-12, at 11:13 AM, doobisary wrote:

I mounted these on a dovetail bar and put the assembly on my Tak Em-10 mount.  I have a new Skyfi wireless adapter and SkySafari, so I left my Keyspan serial adapter at home, figuring I wouldn't need it.  My mount has a bad socket for the hand controller, so I had planned to use the "virtual" buttons in Astro IIDC and Sky Safari for centering and guiding.  Well, it turns out that I can't have the Skyfi AND the GPUSB connected to the mount at the same time, or the virtual buttons won't work.

That has to be a SkiFi or Sky Safari or TAK mount issue continually accessing the mount or something. I have a KeySpan serial with SNP 6.4 or Equinox Pro for GoTo control and either the GPUSB / GPIO board for ST4 Guiding control attached to my HEQ5 mount at the time and they operate fine together.

I reprocessed you original image:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/20120421_063255_U.mov_0PN-001.jpg

with Astro IIDC and you can just pick out the irregular spiral arms in M66

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/M66_20110427_MJA.jpg

and the dark lane in M65:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/M65_MJA_20100310.jpg

too. My images above are ~ 16 minute exposures and with a bigger aperture too, so getting what you did out of your images is pretty cool.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle