ATIK Progress (and AOSX)
I spent last night giving the drivers a final testing and fixing a couple of bugs in the Example App. I'll compile a 10.6.8 over the weekend, however the main version is ready for a full release - it's left me in a poignant mood.
Looking at the emails I started this project in July 2011, and since then I've moved jobs, been to two weddings, see at least 5 kids born to friends, met/engaged/married, moved house, 99% through a house purchase and had a honeymoon in Hawaii (including going up Mauna Kia).
Well, it's an odd feeling when you've not got anything substantial todo in the background.
So what's next..
I played with realtime alignment, rolling my own from the base maths rather than using a library. I have another idea that I want to work on too - under wraps at the moment.
I have a house move soon but I think the next big push is AOSX V2 out the door. For anyone that's forgotten, part of AOSX is to create an ASCOM form of layer for OSX. I originally started AOSX before the ATIK stuff, and the folks at ATIK are happy for their work to work under it, as are many other vendors. AOSX V1 had some fundamental flaws - such as single point of failure and passing all imaging traffic through a single application.
AOSX V2 can control the EQ6/8, support QSI, Firewire/USB IS thanks to David (EQMac) and now ATIK too (which took a bit longer than I was expecting!). I'm in it for the long slog so we will be pushing forward with this over the coming months.
I'd like to thank Sandrine for putting up with my almost obsessive coding. Seriously she's had to put up with quite a bit which is difficult for a french redhead! Naturally I'd like to thanks the folks at ATIK including Steve, Vince (for fixing my 383L when I stepped on the cables one night) and Jonathan.
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