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I'm playing with some ideas for automating a protective cover for my SeeStar S50 to automatically cover the scope after a late night imaging run or during rain or heavy dew conditions. This would allow me to do all night imaging runs that would shut down if the local marine layer moves in and lays down a thick blanket of dew at 3AM.
This mockup is just a piece of plywood, a 1/2" PVC pipe frame held by two blocks screwed into the plywood. The cover is a 50gal trashbag cut to size and taped to the pvc pipes. I need to add a motor drive to rotate the frame to cover/uncover the scope
This idea is also scalable, so I could expand it from the current 12" width to an arbitrary width to cover a fleet of scopes, coordinated as a federation under SeeStar_ALP github.com/sma...
I plan to install a Raspberry Pi with generous SSD capacity, a PI AI camera to do neural network image processing in the camera as a whole-sky imager, a temp/humidity sensor, and appropriate hardware to automate the opening and closing.
Happy to get any comments on this idea.