Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!catfish!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: summary re: amiga, ccd, astronomy image-processing Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 90 06:05:32 GMT References: <28827@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <992@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 26 U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes: >jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes: >Sorry, but I'm genuinely confused. Wasn't this thread basically trying to >determine if Amigas are being/could be used for jobs currently performed >by Macintoshes/IBM clones in this area? >I can't (yet, perhaps if at all) see that those PCs are ``that much'' better >equipped for the apparently CPU intensive tasks you outline. Microcomputers are not the driving force for image acquisition or image reduction at any of the big sites that I know of. When you start dropping names like Lick and Palomar, this is what I think of. Which is not to say that micros don't play a role. I'm trying to get a few Amigas in here. >> This is a far cry from Lick, Palomar, Keck, CFHT, et. al. I don't know, >> there just might be a market for an off-the-shelf computerized home >> observatory. Could be fun. A bit of competition for Distant Suns. :-) >This I would like to see. :-) There's at least one Amiga being used for telescope control and image acquisition, on a personal scale. (No, not mine... yet.) -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.