New 'Trial' user

[ZeroID]

Just saying hello to all.

I'm a Konica Minolta\SONY man from way back, currently with an SLT A77v which I love but I've been impressed by the Canon products astro support and finally caved in and bought a second hand 450D to get Live View and other features. I've been astro-imaging for several years with mixed success from a tinshed observatory in my backyard with the usual LP and restricted sky view problems. I'm on IIS quite a lot with my various projects and comments, same name.

I downloaded the various Canon software offerings and installed and tested the EOS Utility, pretty ok.

 

Then I requested a 30 day trial license for BYE ...

Now I understand WHY Canon and BYE is so popular !

I have only run it up in test so far on the home PC, waiting for a charger (none supplied)  and T -Ring to arrive for real time operation but BYE is really an impressive piece of work.

 

I'll get familiar with it and the camera over the next week or so then reinstall to SkySlab Ob main PC and hope for a few clear sky nights. I can see myself paying up for this pretty darn soon though, it is just so capable and the support looks good, a nice focussed forum being one of them. Not sure I need the Premium version, only a few extra features I might need, Telescope nudging maybe.

 

Cheers all, see you around.

 

Brent

[bujin]

Hi all,

 

I'm a new trial user too.  I watched the 2 hour presentation on the software and thought it looked excellent, so I downloaded the trial.

 

Unfortunately, I live in Wales, and the typical British weather is preventing me from giving it a proper try!  I'm hoping that there's going to be at least one evening of clear skies in the next 26 days or so until my trial period runs out!  

 

Not that it matters too much.  It seems to be well worth the money so I'm sure I'll end up buying it anyway.

 

Gareth

[admin]

Thank you for the kind words Gareth.

[admin]

Welcome to the dark side Brent, and thank you for the nice words

 

Regards,

[bujin]

Finally got some clear skies and took BYE out for a test drive, taking pictures of Comet Lovejoy and the Pleiades on the imaging mode, and Jupiter on the planetary mode.

 

Result?  Love it!  I'm still processing the comet pic at the moment, but my Jupiter pics are infinitely better than they were before using it!

 

So, I will definitely be buying it soon.