[g__day (Matthew)]

As the thread says, today my wife purchased a Canon 400D DSLR - yah wife unit!

I am sure I have an adapter for our old Canon EOS 1000 to connect it to a 1.25" lens barrel, and I have a Meade Motor focuser and JMI PC USB converter to get the motor focuser to be PC control, and I just got DSLR Focus software, and I have Adobe CS Photoshop so...

What other software and/or hardware should I get?

For instance do I need something to control the camera other than a USB cable - e.g. to go past 30 seconds exposure with this camera do you need a special cable and/or hardware device and/or usb/Serial port / parallel port converter to control all the camera's functions from my PC?

I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions about must have, should have or nice to have software to automate the camera.

Many thanks guys and gals!