Well what a most interesting evening it was last night. For the first time I had the G11 connected up to the PC fully controlled with Starry night pro 6, had the DMK21 going in PHD guide 12.2 and had the camera fully controlled with canon remote software. It started working brilliantly, especially considering that the computer had a complete heart and lung transfer where I had to upgrade the motherboard to a new one and now have 4 gig on board with a AMD Phenom 9350e processor and a 512meg graphics card. I took shots of the moon in daylight again, Jupiter and then for fun found and imaged Fomalhaut in daylight. Then my daughter came up to remind me I had to help her with her home work and she accidentally bumped the usb hub at the back. Thats when it all went south. Starry night locked up, PHD locked up, I rebooted twice and tried PHD it was working like a wet paper bag, same deal with Starry night. Then to make matters worse the Gemini driver was unresponsive and the mount was now no longer setup properly, and I had to slew it manually back to the CWD position and start from scratch only to learn that the encoders gave it some ridiculous setting and it slewed the wrong direction. By this stage it was 8.30pm I was getting very frustrated. Manually slewed to a few stars and aligned, then checked on the moon and Jupiter that it was at least slewing somewhere correctly. 9pm now I am fed up, phd will now work only when starry night or the camera control software is not active. I might uninstall PDH and go back one installation to version 11.something. I did have the camera software working when I had starry night running. But I must say that starry night is buggy you can be doing a screen drag to a spot and it will come back with an error and shut down. I must have sent a heap of notices to Megasoft last night as well. So tonight i will be redoing most of the software - bet it will be clear and when i finish it clouds over.....
All I wanted to do was test out the system get a few happy snaps then go comet hunting for Hartley this morning. Here I sit broken hearted paid a penny but only____
