Thanks for the advice - all received gratefully.
I'm actually OK with the electronics/comms/IT side - I've managed a fair few mission critical systems including redundancy and automatic fail-over. I don't ever want to see another reliability block diagram or operational availability calculation (well, unless the job pays really, really well). I'm a systems engineer by profession.
Anyone have a ballpark figure for land lease and remote ROR Obsy construction costs?
Although I acknowledge it's a fair way down the path in the decision process, but I had figured an EQ8 would do as the mount. I'd be interested if there's a consensus that it's not a reliable enough mount ... that really is a single point of failure ... along with the focuser, camera, filter wheel ...
And that's another reason why I don't want to be more than an hour away.
