From: "doobisary" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: April 21, 2012 2:34:46 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: "Test" M65 & M66 image, Flea2

Neat!!

I like using these little cameras with your software so much that I think I'm inclined to wait until you can talk about the one(s) you've been testing before making my next camera purchase. 

I think you're right about the mount controll issue. 

Tim

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

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