Il giorno 14 ago 2022, alle ore 20:00, Richard <rmille64@...> ha scritto:

After my 2 star alignment last night I set the Argo Navis to 'From Planetaruim" and retired to my recliner.

My UC18 dob "system" then sat out on my deck in range of my wifi and performed flawlessly.

The ServoCAT and powered ground board provide the rotating power contacts and motion control with perfect interaction with Argo Navis.

There is something very satisfying about all these systems working together to give me this remote observing capability.

In addition to these systems that grant me remote imaging capability, the Argo Navis has a second serial port that will give you lots of details (can tell you where is the telescope pointing at the instant in time for your data needs), my Eagle4S supports web query to report the SQL of the 5 degree section of the sky where the telescope is pointing, the temperature, humidity, dew point, Battery voltage, current consumption, remaining power of the battery, GPS parameters.? I then copy every parameter of the Mallincam camera (about 35 parameters) with one button click and paste into a MS Access database along with the file name of each image I capture.? I am still working on capturing the focus motor position index.? I have already characterized the relative focus position for each of my filters so I can "perfectly" set the focus if I ever remotely change filters.

In summary, I am having more fun that a human should be allowed to have.? I can remotely slew, focus, change filters, read and store all my sensor data.

Thanks to all those subject matter experts that have enabled me to have such a fun hobby.

Richard Miller