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by ddahlen 301 days ago
This is really impressive! I considered buying a big harmonic drive mount for my scope, but the cost is really prohibitive.

I have experienced the pain of getting ekos/kstars/indi tools to work well on my personal scope. If you want to try driving indi devices via python I have some python code (it's not super polished, but it does enough for my needs): https://github.com/dahlend/contindi
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waerhert 301 days ago
Cool project. What prompted you to write this? Asking because EKOS already has pretty good scheduling features (I've seen, not used). Along the way I did vibe-code a TUI for controlling the INDI server running on the MeLE 4C minicomputer attached to the telescope: https://www.svendewaerhert.com/content/blog/telescope-mount/... - I switched to a headless setup using a remote indi server after having a bad experience with reliability using remote desktop in Gnome. I'll probably put this TUI on Github once I clean it up a bit.
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ddahlen 300 days ago
I am a professional astronomer, and I am running a survey for asteroids. This needs to be controlled from python, as it decides every night which objects to observe.

I also heavily use Jupyter for analysis, and with this code I can take over the telescope and command it in a jupyter session, allowing me to do live data analysis.

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