Hi,
My name is Joe and I'm new to the forum. I'm from Cairns, QLD Australia.
I have a 9.25" Celestron EdgeHD and I have two cameras...
A Canon 1100D and a ZWO ASI 290MC Colour Camera. For now I'm using the Canon 1100D.
Had the telescope for a few years now, used quite a bit, but only just managed to put it in a shed - removable roof. So very excited about not having to set up and pack away each night.
I have a laptop running Debian Linux connected to the telescope, with Stellarium and Gphoto2 and aiming to try and automate some of the operations. In particular, I want to take ~5 min exposure shots of a thin strip of the sky..
i.e.
move to RA, DEC...take a photo
Move RA a little (30')... take a photo
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~1hr later Go back to the beginning
Re-do
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i.e. I want to do some Blink stuff. See if I can spot new (or not so new) faint objects.
Now I can control the camera easily with gphoto2 - so that is solved.
The question is, how might I control the camera?
e.g.
/command/to/control/telescope SLEW -RA 145.7232 -DEC -16.754
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I'm pretty handy at writing scripts and was hoping to script it out
Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Joe