I don't think you're off topic at all! The charge port has communication capability as well in the Gen 1 iPad; should still be there. Gen 1 iPads are capable of telescope control, cable or wireless. We have a developer of SkySafari in our area. He was using it to wirelessly operate his Takahashi mount last summer for public star parties. I have not asked him to find me a satellites, but geosats are plotted, should be easy picking. Tracking one in LEO I don't know about. I received an iPod Touch for my birthday. I had to smile when I turned on the satellites and out popped the Clarke Belt with the sats plotted. You can toggle names on and off. Cheers, Dan Laszlo, NCAS, Ft Collins CO USA -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Fetter <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: seesat-l@satobs.org Sent: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 9:23 am Subject: Off topic = apple Ipad 2 is useless to me for my sat observing I was looking at the info, on the apple Ipad 2 that's coming out. Let's see, unless I am mistaken, there's no usb port like I have on my desktop = can't use a usb to serial adaptor, to connect my scope to it. So the nexremote software, which could run on it from what I see, has no way to connect to the mount and control it, just like the satellite tracker software So no thanks, I stick to my pc. Kevin _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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