Earl

CDC is the best free option for scope control, I have not bothered with a purchase option as it does all i need, Stellurium is great for sitting at your computer and mooching.

Steve what settin do you have the knob on the dome rotation box set to?

making sure these offsets are the same accross all the settings is key too, as with all astronomy stuff there are no standards and applications all do it differently. its a nasue.

reminds me of the day mine came

Steve a word of warnign with the flap, make sure you balance your scope with it in open I did it with mine shut and it does change the balance point. Im also find the balance shifts as the ota points to other parts f the sky due to the weight of the unit on one side so it might be wortth considering counter balancing it. Id be very interested to hear if you have any issues and how you deal with them regarding this.

I have my sensor placed about 10 foot awy from my dome on one of the compost thingy posts, it is sheltered a bit from northen winds, but we very rarley get them here mostly southernly or easterly.

This looks handy. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ethernet-16-CH-Relay-Module-Board-for-Home-Automation-SNMP-Web-IP-LAN-/170724913886?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bfff72de

Did you get the IP9255EU version? Bah i should read better LOL

I have the flip flat, not cheap but rock solid one of the most reliable bits of kit i own imo.

Steve Im really keen to see how you get on with doing this, I have had nothing but trouble with all the automation, and equipment, a sane person would of chucked the towel in ages ago however ill be damned if i give in now !!!

ER..... yeah.... i read on it on the forum, its to do with the weatherstation and the file the aag can generate and telling sgp via the right ascom divice to read that file. (sorry its vague i cant recall where i looked) I select from the menu "Weather stn:"Ascom Boltwood OK to Open However if all your interested in is emergancy shut the aag will do this in a standalone way. Where i woudl ultimalty like it to be is.... Able to check the weather in real time and image if its doable from a predefined set of targets, for which i belive ACP is the way to go. I do belive this is ultimatly the right piece of software. (Personal Expert as you need to schedual) http://acp.dc3.com/stvideo.html

SGP does support cloudsensors

energy / matter is never lost its always balanced, out of reach maybe but still in existance, (it is an interesting thought that if you can never interact with something is it lost i guess its one point of view) nothing can leave the universe unless matter / energy can skip between parallel universes, which is an interesting concept in itself and i think i have heard something about that somewhere as some sort of quantum state / property, cant recall which, but it was theoretical at best i think.