From: "Stephen W. Ramsden" <sramsden@natca.net>

Date: April 21, 2012 2:42:40 PM MDT

To: <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Cc: "'David Mayers'" <David.Mayers@ptgrey.com>

Subject: Shuttle Discovery retirement  and ASTRO IIDC on PGR cams

Hey guys!

8500+ people came through the Shuttle Discovery event at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy museum in Washington the last two days. 

I had 2 iMacs setup with a Grasshopper and a Scorpion to broadcast the live full disk COLOR solar images to the crowd plus 4 other scopes for visual.  It was a great event and I wanted to thank Milton for his support of the program and his wonderful software. 

Here’s a little dramatic license with the one and only image I was able to take during the rush of people.  It was the busiest event by far I have ever done…  Now on to NEAF 2012!

From: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of doobisary
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 4:35 PM
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Astro_IIDC] 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
>