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Old 09-05-2020, 08:05 AM
joeman (Joe Turner)
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Introduction and Question RE: Scripting Telescope Slew

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

?

I'm pretty handy at writing scripts and was hoping to script it out

Any ideas?

Many Thanks

Joe
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Old 09-05-2020, 10:07 AM
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Hi Joe welcome to the forum.

I have no idea but just wanted to say your setup sounds awesome! and good luck with it all
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Old 09-05-2020, 01:16 PM
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It is very nice to meet you Jay

Thank-you.

I love looking up into the sky.
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Old 10-05-2020, 11:28 PM
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Hey Joe,

A question like that will get lost in this thread, not really "beginners stuff"?

Try the software and computers thread.

I'm on Linux and Kstars has functionality for setting an imaging routine..?
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