Hey all,

As some of you may know, I’ve been waiting a week for a Meade DSIc Imager that I purchased on eBay. It arrived as schedule last Friday and I could not wait to try out my new/used camera that night. Oh boy…I thought I just got ripped off, everything looked fine until I tried to install it. As soon as I popped the disk in I received an error stating the files I was using had either bad or corrupt media? What the heck! Tried reinserting it, same error again! So I eject the CD and visually inspect it and it looked like someone had used sand paper to clean it, what do I do now? So I buff the disk with some cleaner we have for our DVD’s and what not and I stick it back in my lap top…its starts to install! Well after about 4 hours and no more hair to pull out, I ejected it again, but this time it landed in the trash! Now I’m fuming and my wife is saying “I told you so…” If anyone knows me, I am not the type to give up and there is no way I’m taking a hickey! Needless to say…there was no imaging that night. Now it is Saturday and I still haven’t got the camera installed. So I decide to Google everything I could think of regarding the camera and wow every thing I need to fix the problem is right there for the taking. But what do I need? The choices were infinite, so after another 2-3 hours of research, I finally download the drivers and acquiring software. Once I downloaded everything and installed the camera, it appears to be working! Whew! Now I’m just waiting for the sun to go down and find out if the camera is in the same shape as the CD! Here is what I found out…

Each is 25x15sec. Subs unguided
I need to work on better polar alignment a balancing

Here is another one...

Nice shots Larry!
It looks like the camera is working perfectly.
Except for the lost of hair and time waisted the good thing about installing from internet is that you might already have the latest versions of the drivers and software.

I found a fast way of drift aligning the mount using the camera. Check out this link:
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/pandb/hall/polar.htm

Best,
Pablo

Thanks for the compliment and the link too! I've never tried or even knew how drift align.

Clear Skies,
Larry