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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Dealer hat on for a bit....
You cannot use the Titan for remote observing. There is no index switch with which to re-sync the mount if power is lost. Nor does the mount have absolute encoders...hence once power is lost, there is no way of knowing how it is physically oriented.
That said, if you are happy to power up the mount, do a warm-start, slew then sync to a star, the modelling will be preserved and you can easily control it over a network with whatever software (eg SkyX)
Hope that helps.
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I think that the same applies to EQ8 on an unscheduled power loss. Although it has encoders, they are incremental and don't tell the mount where it is (just how far it has moved). EQ8 does have indexing on both axes, but as far as I can tell, the current ASCOM driver does not make use of it. You can run additional software to home the mount after a power dropout, but that makes full unattended automation more problematic, although it would certainly be a big advantage if you are willing to do a bit yourself (over a network for example) after a power outage.