PHD, Mac OS X and Orion Autoguider - Can it be done?

[Benno85]

Evening All,

Is anyone running a Macbook Pro with phd and the Orion Autoguider? My brief research thus far leads me to think that phd can work on OS X, but not the autoguider...am I right?

[multiweb]

You might want to head up to the starklabs yahoo group. I know a couple of guys use MACs there.

[gbeal]

Agree with Marc, try the Yahoo group. I have PHD on my MacBook, and yes it works, although I can't comment on the Orion. In my case the DMK (but it must be Firewire) works.
To be honest, I haven't used it in anger, I wanted to have a back-up plan for when I finally give up on the PC.
Gary

[light matter]

You can always run "boot camp" with the Mac to dual boot it.

I know plenty who run windows because of certain applications and OS 10 at other times. Get the best of both worlds.

Cheers Rob

[Benno85]

Thanks Rob, I think that's the way I'll end up doing it. Windows for guiding and saving images, then over to the Mac for processing. Actually, on the processing note, is there a Mac version of Deep Sky Stacker (or something that has the same fuctionality and is free? :question:)

[troypiggo]

I'm using a MacBook Pro. I didn't respond to you original post because I couldn't help with that. But since the direction has changed...

I'm using a VMWare Fusion virtual machine that runs Windows XP, so I can use Mac and Win at same time. Performance is fine. The WinXP runs EQMod, PHD for guiding, CdC for planetarium/GOTO - so all the guiding and mount control stuff. In the Mac environ I run all the image capture stuff - Nebulosity for my setup, and Astroplanner.

I do all my image calibrating and stacking with Nebulosity for Mac (Snow Leopard), and post-processing in CS4 PS for Mac.

[dipalina]

Is there any way to Format a USB Drive to Mac Os Extended using Windows? I'm wanting to format my usb drive to mac os extended format, but I don't own a mac or know anybody with one. Is there any way to do this using a pc? Such as an application or something. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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