From: "jakobagat" <algerman@me.com>

Date: January 9, 2013 10:34:43 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Too late...

Well, first I wish to thank Mr Aupperle for accepting me to the group, and apologize for the post being so long, but, please, be patient with my rambling english.

As an amateur astrophotographer and Mac user living in Brazil, I must confess: I took the wrong turn when first choose to buy an astro camera, and now I'm stuck with Windows OS.

As they say, life is to short for it...

I installed Astro IIDC  demo version on my MacBook Pro almost two years ago, and keep opening it from time to time, and thinking about the incredible capabilities it has.

As anyone in the hobby knows, astrophotography is an unforgiving mistress, and I'm still learning. Passed the webcam and low res color cameras phase and get my faithful Lumenera SkyNyx 2.2, second hand from Andrew Lunt. Planetary imaging is great with it, but, as I said, it kept me tied to Windows.

Setting up Windows 7 under Parallels, fighting with device drives and comm ports - again! - indeed fortified my spirit. It is a struggle almost every time, but there are good and bad days and nights.

And there sat Astro IIDC, waiting for me to get a camera for it. And it came, a tinny little Firefly MV USB from eBay, arrived at the mail last week, and it works with Astro!

Lets register the software!

Too late...

I'm very sorry for the OS X amateur astronomy "community", shame on us for letting such a great piece of software pass by. If I just had researched a little more back then, I would've bought a registration key for my machine and camera.

Well, enough for whining. Is there any way I can buy a license for it? 

Forgive me to ask, but this is the only honest way to act, I think.

Clear skies for all.

Almir Germano, from Brazil