2023-07-06, 10:07 AM
Hello Greg, thanks for the reply,I’ll try to explain. Getting on a bit now and finding it harder to motivate myself to go to the top of garden to the observatory, so I’m trying out remote observing for such times, not so bad in the summer. I have the visual and imaging bundle, so I will be trying imaging too. I love the SkyTools tour function, the ‘scope slewing to each target in turn. At present, the observatory is not completely isolated from the telescope (work in progress) and with dome movement and ground shifting, the telescope is not always spot on with slews, my old eyes may miss the object if it’s slightly off and if viewing from the house, the target could be anywhere, especially with the narrow camera view. With the slew and centre on Nina, the target is centred wether visually or via a camera. I know you can’t cater for everyone’s needs and I would lose the tour function of SkyTools, but it would be very tedious copying each target individually to Nina. There is the option of doing a separate platesolve on each target, but that would involve running another program, whereas in Nina, it’s all done automatically. APT would do the same thing with goto++, but doesn’t have dome and shutter support, unless you do a script or something to run another program. Dave.