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As Fred says,
I think you'd have to allocate alot of dosh for those environmental controls - I always guess around a few thousand dollars - plus you'd really need a top notch mount and probably several OTAs - with video camera on a real widefield OTA to check where you are pointing and syncing on.
Seriously rather than add $5,000 to your cost - try plan B.
Have your wife or a friend set up the scope and open the portal and sync to your first star. Run things remotely. If everything borks up get them at the site on the phone to de-bug things. Get them to power down and put it away.
Really you could do that at much lower cost. Once you want to seriously do what you adovocate I trckon you are on $7K - $14K mounts at a minimum, plus quality dovetails - another $1K - $1.5K, plus several OTAs and CCDs, plus power cycling and UPS's and a closed circuit CCTV to image over the web what is happening with your rig to help debug things etc...
High end - buy time on a rig in Chile. Mid range - get wife or friend to help!
Matthew
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