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Eric,
Thanks for the feedback.
Many spectroscopists are currently using medium to high end mounts and use remote control ( I'm only using a C11 on a NEQ6pro with Teamviewer) - these can successfully GOTO a target star and place it in the guide field - CdC/Eqmod etc.....using PDH/AstroArt5/ SPCAudela we can easily guide to within a pixel.
Motorising the various elements of the spectroscope (other than grating change-overs - still a manual intervention) has been done by numerous observers.
With observer "control" it is straight forward to positively identify the target star, position it on the slit gap and start guiding.
At this stage is doesn't appear feasible to get full robotic control of a system to work for us.
The "minimal" observer interaction may be as good as it gets - albeit remotely.
Re fibre optics connection - the available sizes of the fibres v's the star image are an issue.
Any spectroscope, with a bit of thought can be connected with a fibre optic. This does reduce the mechanical issues in mounting the spectroscope to the telescope, but doesn't solve the fundamental issues of target aquisition.
Last edited by Merlin66; 14-09-2013 at 05:03 PM.
Reason: note of fibres added
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