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Old 13-01-2008, 12:13 PM
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What is the purpose of your remote telescope? A Meade DS isn't going to be that reliable for imaging purposes....

There are a lot of sites about that have information in one form or another but bascially you need:

1. An observatory with automated roof, auto power on and off of the scope and computer equipment and camera(s) (I assume you intend it to image something)
2. Telescope capable of auto aligning and finding targets (means very good pointing and tracking)
3. Computer
4. Camera
5. Software to run it all - ie Turn on the power, open the observatory, turn on the scope and camera, align the telescope and start pointing it at targets - all via the internet.
6. A connection between the observatory computer and the Internet. Can be wireless but I would NOT recommend it - so a LAN line.

I have a paper on the subject as it relates to my own observatory BUT it is not Internet connected (though an upgrade of the software I use to a higher version - for a couple of $1000 US - would fix this).

http://david-higgins.com/Astronomy/p...0Observing.pdf

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