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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
After what sounds like a bit of effort, that's a very nice outcome there Pete and congratulations on setting up to be automated, must be quite satisfying, onwards and upwards from here mate  ...can't wait to eventually be in that position myself...I'm lagging behind a few of you guys in that department now  . 
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It made so much sense for me as I was getting so little use out of it when I had to sit there watching it. Basically wouldn't set things up on a week night and between moon and clouds, a lot of weekends were no good. This way I let it run if I'm confident it won't rain. If clouds pass over it sits and waits till it is clear. For the next couple of weeks while the moon is hanging around I'll start to process the backlog of data.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
That's a solid image and a good amount of exposure time.
What software do you use to control the evenings' imaging? I run my rig from inside the house so it would not be hard to take it to the next level with some automated all night imaging. Plate solving is working as well.
Greg.
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Hi Greg, I've moved to Voyager to control things. I've found it to be very robust such that I don't need to keep an eye on it and it also allows quite a large degree of customisation through its scripting language. I've also set up a Python routine that selects my targets based on criteria I can select. Everything is running on an old laptop in the obs and I can keep an eye on things via Teamviewer or via Voyager's web dashboard.