Setting Up an Acquisition System
Put your feet up and let the computer take control. Well, in theory anyway.
While we may have already experienced the advantages of PC camera control and assisted focusing in wide-field imaging on a simple tracking mount, full computer-controlled imaging is a watershed moment. This benefit comes from combining a dual-axis mount and PC-assisted imaging, discussed in the previous chapters. This combination allows one to control the imaging sequence entirely from a computer. As the complexity of the system increases, however, so do the number of things that can go wrong and it will take a while before you can rely on a system to perform without manual intervention. For my permanent installation, I have now reached ...
