Jasem,
I have been watching your YouTube KStars-Ekos-INDI demonstration and nice 4-09-2016 presentation videos. In the last few days I have been preparing a proposal for the steering committee of the local astronomy club which I joined recently (after my professional workload declined). The meeting is tomorrow evening. We have a half meter PlaneWave scope plus a 150 mm APO “guide-scope” on a Knopf GEM rated to 200 kg payload . Some of the members are very accomplished astro-photographers. In recent years the facility has become under-utilised. This can be understood as the observatory is in a relatively remote dark sky location in Germany. The users have had to camp in the building as remote operations are not supported. The proposal is a program to upgrade the dome automation and acquisition to systematically acquire data on exoplanets for AM to PRO support plus the public outreach which is quite well supported by the club.
Obviously, I will be advocating Linux-KStars-Ekos-INDI on RPI3s as an upgrade architecture.
Question: What is the potential for an INDI driver and EKOS support of a spectrograph such as the Shelyak spectrograph Lhires III ? The manufacturer’s web site says that it now supports remote operation.
We may develop some functional requirements for automation with regard to spectroscopy and photometry acquisition in an automated and remotely supervised and observed by members observatory.
Of course there is the Windose – Ascom barrier. I have no idea how much reluctance for change there may be when Linux-INDI is advocated.
– John
I have been watching your YouTube KStars-Ekos-INDI demonstration and nice 4-09-2016 presentation videos. In the last few days I have been preparing a proposal for the steering committee of the local astronomy club which I joined recently (after my professional workload declined). The meeting is tomorrow evening. We have a half meter PlaneWave scope plus a 150 mm APO “guide-scope” on a Knopf GEM rated to 200 kg payload . Some of the members are very accomplished astro-photographers. In recent years the facility has become under-utilised. This can be understood as the observatory is in a relatively remote dark sky location in Germany. The users have had to camp in the building as remote operations are not supported. The proposal is a program to upgrade the dome automation and acquisition to systematically acquire data on exoplanets for AM to PRO support plus the public outreach which is quite well supported by the club.
Obviously, I will be advocating Linux-KStars-Ekos-INDI on RPI3s as an upgrade architecture.
Question: What is the potential for an INDI driver and EKOS support of a spectrograph such as the Shelyak spectrograph Lhires III ? The manufacturer’s web site says that it now supports remote operation.
We may develop some functional requirements for automation with regard to spectroscopy and photometry acquisition in an automated and remotely supervised and observed by members observatory.
Of course there is the Windose – Ascom barrier. I have no idea how much reluctance for change there may be when Linux-INDI is advocated.
– John