Hello all,
I'm hoping to get a little help and advice here if anyone can help !
I have a 10" Newtonian which I modified by attaching a CR2 2inch Moonlite Focuser to it. It has the Hi Res stepper motor on it and the Mini V2 controller which is hooked up
to my PC via ASCOM and I use Sequence Generator Pro for image capture and auto focusing. My camera is a QHY8L for the sake of full clarity and I have to drag it all outside
every time I want to do some imaging.
In the medium future (due to a house move) I am planning an Observatory build in my new back garden/yard which will be positioned probably about 60 feet from the house.
Everything works great at the moment for a 'Mobile' setup just outside our current conservatory on the patio but when this Observatory build goes ahead in the future I can see
a very large problem developing due to the proximity of the Obs.
Currently, I use auto focus which is great but if I use SGP's framing and mosaic tool to frame an image and need to rotate the camera I just pop outside the conservatory to manually
rotate the camera in the focuser (guessing) based on how much SGP tells me to and in which direction. Sometimes I get it within the allowed tolerance and other times I have to pop
out 3 or 4 times to get it right. This is not so much of a problem NOW but imagine having to run 60 feet each time.......
Not Good 🤪
So, somehow I need to come up with a way of having Motor Rotation as well as motor focusing ! ! ! !
I have looked at the Moonlite focusers website but only see a rotator option for refractors and SCT's
Is it possible to somehow convert my CR2 to also rotate the camera also on my Newt ?.....Has anyone done this already ? .....Any video's anywhere cos I cant find any ?
Any Help would be gratefully appreciated
Many Regards
Paul