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Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Great to hear Peter,
I was using Voyager last night and with the passing high cloud, I was delighted when it recovered from a lost guide star. Much better than my previous experience with CCD Commander - if anything failed, it just proceeded onto the next action in the script.
I'm hoping Voyager evolves into an alternative for ACP Scheduler. It does intelligent scheduling, chooses the most suitable target (based on position in the sky and a host of other criteria) from a list without you having to script the entire run each evening. The market needs alternatives and ACP has had a monopoly on that task for a while. (This is for the school observatory I help to run, not my own setup unfortunately - my own gear will remain a temporary setup for the foreseeable future)
Would love to hear about your Arduino Weather Station - any chance you'd write it up as a project for others? I really enjoy mucking around with that stuff, but have no real idea about coding.
DT
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David,
I agree the recovery is a real strength. I've never successfully left things unattended with either of the other options I've tried.
There is quite a lot going on with Voyager developments. It might not be up to ACP standard however there is this in the making:
https://forum.starkeeper.it/t/my-ast...g-planner/1985
Re the arduino project...take a look at this thread:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=178965
If you are interested in going down that path I have quite a bit of detail around my cloud model that I can share and there is also information on how some of the commercial units have approached this in the public domain if you know where to look. Funnily enough I stumbled across some work by Idso for mine and I later learned some of the commercial units went down a similar path.
I had not done any coding since Fortran in secondary school however you can teach an old dog new tricks...Google is your friend
Visual Studio and VB.net is pretty intuitive and I got some fantastic help from a fellow IIS member to resolve a nagging issue.
Peter.