Hi Rob, finished those exams?
I've been doing everything with a view to automate, that is, I'm trying not to box myself in. I bought and tested that control card, it works, There are already ascom drivers for that card so I don't have to write them, I'm pretty sure I can get a pair of windscreen wiper motors to drive the dome ring, but I'm not sure about the azmith feedback or the shutter control.
Right now it looks like I will have to have a fold out lower section like the sirius dome so I can see low enough to drift align the mount, and hopefully have a curved, wheeled type door for the rest of the opening that 'could' be motorised to open/close that main shutter.
My woodwork skills have been amplified a lot by doing this project, so it may all be possible, I wouldn't have imagined that when I started this, then again we might get a hail storm tonight and the lot could be reduced to dust
One thing's for sure, I'm sick of making wooden rings for the stinking thing
