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Subject: [M]: Re: Pictorview - The saga continued
From: Blair MacDonald
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Feb 26 04:06:16 2001

While you're here, how about checking out the Astronomy Book List ?

Bill:

Grab a copy of APT from my web site at
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/b.macdonald/apt. It will give you automosaic and
centering functions with integration of Maxim DL.

Blair


----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: [M]: Pictorview - The saga continued


> I have been pleasantly away from Pictorview for over a year, having
> switched to Maxim DL-CCD with very satisfactory results. Today I
> returned however, lured in by it's ability to auto-mosaic, a feature
> unfortunately missing in Maxim. After an evening of frustrating effort,
> I can't get Pictorview to run. The perameters and problems are:
>
> I have a 12" LX200, a 416XTE, a Dell Inspiron Laptop with an Adaptec
> 1480 SCSI card. I can make the SCSI connection between the camera and
> the computer OK as evidenced by the fact that Maxim DL recognizes the
> camera and images flawlessly. When I try to run Pictorview (ver 7.13) it
> seems to detect the camera, as it displays "Pictor 416 detected".
> Immediately thereafter it displays "Mode Select Error, Could Not Perform
> Task" repeating this message every couple of seconds in an endless loop
> that requires a Control-Alt.-Delete to abort the program.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or should I crawl back to the security
> of Maxim DL and try to mosaic manually.
>
>
>
>
>



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