Remote Telescope Automation with NINA and Sequencer Powerups | 2024-08-24

Continuing in the most recent vein of automating your telescope rig, Timothy Martin joins us to talk about how he uses NINA for remote operations, including the Sequencer Powerups plugin. He'll go through how to use Marc Blank’s Sequencer Powerups plugin for NINA to optimize remote imaging, primarily focusing on intelligent handling of roof closures and openings during the night, advanced real-time messaging, and automation of taking calibration frames for even multiple targets at multiple rotation angles.

Tim is a retired attorney and former CTO living in North Dallas with his wife Christi. He has one daughter, Danielle, who lives in Stockholm. Tim has been interested in astronomy all his life but has only been engaged in amateur astrophotography directly since 2019. He currently has three scopes operating at Deep Sky West Remote Observatory near Santa Fe and two in his back yard at home.

NINA sequence files Tim mentions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Timothy's AstroBin: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Accide...

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