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Well tonight I play with Registax and photoshop on a series of images of M42, NGC 104 and Saturn to see what can be done.
I learnt last night that I was glad I purchased extra long cables, but you have to be very careful that cameras don't fall out of the eyepieces or diagonals - especially when bumped in the dark - as there are alot of stresses there on some very small bolts.
Counting cables other then the RA and DEC power / signal cables and hand controller and mount power supply
1. Cable from serial port to hand controller to run ASCOM drivers from CDC
2. Cable from parllel port to autoguide input
3. Cable from DSI used for auto-guiding into PC's USB
4. Cable from Canon 400D into PC's USB
5. Power cable into Canon 400D
6. Power Cable into Meade Motor Focus unit
7. Signal cable from Meade Motor Focus into JMI converter -> USB into PC ot split into hand controller override
8. Comming shortly - bulb cable for Canon to take shots > 30 secs into ShoeString Astronomy's DUSB coverter into PC's USB
So that's about 12 cables to avoid tripping over in the dark!
I think I'll delay remote viewing over IP for a while later! I'm still paranoid on each slew that the Canon may get cluncked, I think I'll get tube extenders for the MEG and SCT and ignore diagonals!
PS
Even with careful sky align (less that 1 minute of error from SCP) and no appreciable drift in short exposures - most GoTo's didn't place the target right on the CCD slight adjustment in the dark was required! I think Software Bisque sell TPoint which can used to improve pointing behaviour, so I'll look into that too!
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