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The beauty of the iOptron setup (And doubtless others) in my situation is that it can recover from everything up to a power failure. The NUC will boot when power comes back on, and Windows is set up to start Voyager using the standard script I have for all nights, the first thing it will do (If it is after astronomical night has started) is connect the setup, cool the camera and home the mount before continuing on from wherever it was up to.
I am surprised that they have not set the EQ8-R up to be able to be easily homed and synced automatically, it makes problem recovery so much easier. Even if I was not leaning on automation, my Atlas versus my CEM70 is the difference between a trip out to the mount at 2AM to manually put the Atlas back in the park position to avoid the risk of a crash, and homing the CEM70 via a remote desktop session.
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