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Overview Remote observing requires attention to detail – especially details that can affect the ability of your equipment to shoot targets each night. That’s where safety monitors come into play in NINA. Safety monitors aren’t just for “is the roof open?”! You can chain a number of different things together to determine when it’s “safe” to actually take pictures. Our telescope at Starfront uses both data from their weather station (windspeeds) as well as from their roof system (open/closed). In our case, we want to shoot when both: Only in

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Overview A number of people have asked about how to handle remote automation sequencing in NINA. I will attempt to explain the way I have written the sequence that TRAC uses for this purpose. I am sure there are better ways to handle this, but this is what we’ve come up with so far. This whole system relies on a few specific things: What This Sequence/Blog Post Is Not In this post I will walk through the logic of our remote automation sequence, but I won’t be going into details

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