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Last updated: 5 June 2012

Subject:	Ciao
Sent:	Monday, June 4, 2012 15:47:42
From:	Antonio Frontera (a.frontera@gmail.com)
thank you for your great site about ETX 125! 
I have a etx 125 with a MEADE LPI bought used.
I have a little big problem:
on my mac lion doesn't work.
Doesn't work on a mac LEOPARD too..
and doesn't work on a WINDOWS 7.

Either on a WINDOWS XP.

This meade LPI sucks.
The seller who send me (via ebay) is a person in who i trust... he told
me that several month ago it worked well.

So i WRITE TO YOU because i'd like to know only this:
IF I CONNECT this object to every mac / pc (either if i installed
drivers or not) ... i think that the DEVICE MUST BE releaved by the
PC/MAC...
almost REVEALED !!! or doesn't it? 
because i've to understand if i am doing some mistakes about install
drivers.

Thank you if you could help me

Ciao
73

Mike here: Hello from my observatory. I'm doing a dry-run for tomorrow's Transit of Venus.
Please read the Electronic Mail Etiquette and Submittal Guidelines page; your message was almost deleted as SPAM due to the Subject line. Thanks for understanding.
As to using the LPI on a Mac, see the article "LPI with Mac OS X" on the Helpful Information: Astrophotography page.

End of today's update

Subject:	will it work
Sent:	Saturday, May 12, 2012 13:42:09
From:	mikeandholly830@charter.net (mikeandholly830@charter.net)
I have a celestron Se8 with a f10 I have a meade DSI II and am trying to
get a whole pic of the sun or moon in one shot. My question is will a
Meade LSI be able to do this? any help will be appreciated

Mike here: I'm not familiar with a "LSI" not the Celestron telescope. But as I recall, the LPI is like a 6.7mm eyepiece.

And:

thats whatI ment.  LPI. I have a 3.3 focal reducer I want to be able to
image the sun for the venus transit. I cant seem to do it with theDSI
II. I was thinking about getting the LPI or mabey the Orion StarShoot
Solar System Color Imaging Camera IV, but I don't want to spend money on
anything I dont need or wont work. I am not to good at math and people
keep giving me  formulas that I am having trouble  to figure out. Would
you have any suggestions on what i  should do with the telescope I have?

Mike here: You may get the LPI + focal reducer to give you a full disk image (or, depending on the telescope). You can see some very old images I did with a LPI here:
http://www.weasner.com/etx/autostar/autostar_suite/autostar_suite_mac_6a.html
The ETX-70 has a focal length of 350mm and you can see the LPI got the entire disk.

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