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Beware wildlife. I recall a young bull knocking over an EQ8 and damaging it at a certain dark site in NSW.
If your using a laptop to run things then you do need to ensure you have adequate power, not just the laptop battery. Use a good deep cycle battery and a DC-DC converter to run tge laptop. There is a nice little wifi box that can be used to run ASI cameras and filter wheel via wifi, but as mentioned SGP does it all. For dew protection of your workstation next to the mount, a plastic storage box, turned on its side, makes a good laptop cubby house. Some folks use pop up toilet cubicles as imaging gear shelters. Some mounts have inbuilt limit sensors and SGP can handle flips. I would suggest practicing your imaging run setup at home before you deploy it in the field, that way no surprises. Other options are to sleep there, or the ultimate accessory - your own observatory, complete with warm room , coffee machine, and remotely connected to your house.
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