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Best Mount for Imaging (£5k-£6k Budget)

ribuck

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ollypenrice

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Oh, but Olly, I normally do balance quite well but have run successfully with pretty poor balance as well. Balanceing the 10Micron mounts is so simple. You enter the procedure from the handset, wait a minute or two and then it tells you whether you're shaft heavy or OTA heavy (top and bottom for Dec) and by how much. One or two adjustments and you're perfectly balanced.

Yes, but Tim isn't finding this. I'm not disputing that both you and he know what you're talking about. You do. I just think mounts are like that, that's the truth.

Olly

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I chose a laptop in a big French store. Girl went to get one, came back empty handed. Sorry Monisieur, we don't have any. (Groan, an hour's faffing wasted.) Well, we do, but only in pink. Young lady, say I, do I look like a man who spent an hour this morning perfecting his nails, polishing his shoes, scraping strands of hair across his bald patch and plucking hair from his nostrils? Give me the pink one so I can get the hell out of here!

Olly

PS, I still have it. Mmmm, it's lovely.

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perfrej

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Mon Dieu here too! I just received a UPS Quantum View notification that my GM1000HPS has left Baader Planetarium. I'll do a proper unbox write-up and a review shortly! If only the weather was with me, but alas, it is not. At least a week and a half until I can expect a few hourrs of clear skies. Never seen anything like it!

So, stay tuned (although I will start a new thread for that)

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NickK

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Annoyingly I've not received any response from either ASA or Philipp Keller in relation to creating a Mac version of Autoslew.. not even a simple "no thank you".

Sad.. if that's ASA/Keller's way with customers.

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Unfortunately, porting to Mac is, most likely, not a viable commercial venture at the present time. Besides, with ASCOM being the norm and development of stuf to talk ASCOM is usually carried out in Visual Studio, there is no common code base for Mac. Now, should people start using Qt for general ASCOM development it could be ported to Mac or Linux with very little effort. Sad to say, only C++ is fully supported by Qt which may be a prohibiting factor for many.

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Unfortunately, porting to Mac is, most likely, not a viable commercial venture at the present time. Besides, with ASCOM being the norm and development of stuf to talk ASCOM is usually carried out in Visual Studio, there is no common code base for Mac. Now, should people start using Qt for general ASCOM development it could be ported to Mac or Linux with very little effort. Sad to say, only C++ is fully supported by Qt which may be a prohibiting factor for many.

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If written properly it's possible to create a portable core of C++ then have small parts of "native" code as a wrapper. I've created a whole core for ATIK so it's possible to wrap the driver core for AOSX/INDI or ASCOM..

The problem with Qt is that the UI ends up confusing to the user - something that makes it harder to learn for the user and support for the developer (vxWidgets is stuck at 10.6 on the mac version and won't compile on 10.8 for example).

From a software product management perspective I understand your point, but I disagree - just because something is the norm doesn't mean it's the only way or that it's a closed avenue. I also think it's a sign of bad software design/development if the entire thing is laced so much that it can't be ported.. there's only a small percentage of software that has to be written so dependant due to specialist or performance requirements!

But.. this is an age old debate - as refractor vs reflector is to astronomy :)

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Oh, I do not disagree with you. Qt 5, however, will comple fine on 10.8 (I have two projects running that works fine on Linux, PC and Max) if you use the right compiler. As for C++, I hate it as it generates code that only the person writing it can interpret ;)

I actually think it is possible to port the whole ASCOM thing to Qt and make it available on Linux and Macs. It shouldn't be impossible.

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Yes, I have looked at the 200. It is supposed to be a good mount and priced as it is because of the genuine Renishaws and the payload. The Sitech is a good controller, but my desire to have an integrated mount still stands so I feel it is a bit of a bolt-on even at $22k. From a reliable source in the scientific community I have heard that the Planewave mounts may not be as good as people think, but that's just an unconfirmed statement. It may be very good or over-rated... Don't know which it is ;)

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