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Last updated: 21 May 2008
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Last updated: 21 May 2008 |
This page is for user comments and information specific to the Meade AutoStar Suite. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or answers to questions posed here, e-mail them to me and I'll post them. Please use an appropriate Subject Line on your message. Thanks. (The Lunar Planetary Imager, LPI, and Deep Sky Imager, DSI, are covered in the Helpful Information - Astrophotography area.)
Subject: Imac compatibility for Autostar suite Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 09:24:26 From: Louis Welke (lcwelke@sbcglobal.net) I have am using a Mac Imac with the intel processor (Version OSX) and am interested in obtaining Autostar Suite for the imac is their a version for this system? Thank you for your time and Kudos for all you have done. Lou WelkeMike here: Meade has not developed a native Mac OS X (PPC or Intel) of their AutoStar Suite. So, it is currently limited to running under Windows. However, if you have Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) you have Boot Camp. You can install Windows in Boot Camp (or one of the virtual apps, like Parallels, which I use). But that requires that you have a legal copy of Windows. And even once you get that far, you would need a Windows version of a USB-serial adapter (hardware and software) if you want to control the telescope from the AutoStar Suite. For more info on Parallels, see the Helpful Information: Astronomy & Intel Mac Systems page.
Subject: Envisage is a separate update... Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:09:06 From: richard seymour (rseymour@wolfenet.com) Meade posted an 80 megabyte "update v5" for AutostarSuite last week. Unfortunately, it -still- lags behind, since it was apparently assembled in the middle of 2007. For example, that kit provides Envisage 5.85 But on the Meade Downloads page http://www.meade.com/support/downloads.html is a link to the 3 megabyte Envisage 7.05 http://www.meade.com/support/Envisage_v7.05.exe There is also some confusion about the MySky-capable AutostarUpdater (ASU). I believe the one in the "v5" update is one which will -break- the MySky by including and downloading v12q firmware (which can't handle 2008). The proper saves-your-MySky updater is (again) linked to from the main download page, and is fetched from http://www.meade.com/mysky/mySKY_Update.html specifically http://www.meade.com/mysky/Au2_mySKY.exe The ASU2.exe included with the "v5" update was created in August 2007, and is version 4.85 (under Help/About). The ASU2.exe included with the MySky-specific download was created in Dec 2007 and is version 4.88 (under Help/About). The MySky version self-installs in a -different- directory tree than the AutostarSuite updater.... Meade/Astroware instead of Meade/AutostarSuite There are times when i -do- wish Meade could get their act together in a coherent and consistent fashion... have (confused) fun --dickMike here: It would be nice if Meade had Software Quality Control and Software Configuration Management functions!
Subject: AutostarSuite v5.0 apparently now available from Meade website Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 02:40:31 From: Niall J. Saunders (niall@njs101.com) I was just surfing through Meade's site a few moments ago, and it seems that AutoStar Suite v5.0 is now available for download. I don't know what this entails - I am downloading it myself (80mB) as I type this, but will not be able to check it out until I get back to an Imaging PC this evening. If anyone manages to check it out - let us know what this is all about. Cheers, Niall Saunders Clinterty Observatories Aberdeen, SCOTLAND
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