Okay, I have a Tak E-160 & a rotator, so I have to take dawn flats at different angles (didn’t realize till I set up in a remote obsy this month). So, no biggie. When a target is completed in RoboTarget, I can set the dawn flats for that object’s angle and take the flats the next couple of mornings. BUT…
…I wondered if there were a way to trigger the RoboTarget finish in DragScript and then have it set the dawn flat rotational angle. If not, not the end of the world, but I’m weak at DragScript for complicated things, so I thought I’d ask.
Answer is no … MEchanical PA is on the FIT headers if you want. SO you can use this info reading by external script and callin the right skyflat sequence or flat sequence or you can decide manually which mechanical PA to use ad do a rotational by day flat sequence or you can define a fixed interval of degree and do a rotational by day flat sequence.
Otherwise usually 99.9% of telescope flats are nto affected by rotation of camera. So doing flat in the last rotation.
For last remember that rotating the E160 usually means a lost of collimation and orthogonality in 90% of cases
Fortunately, a bunch of OTHER people tested the Hercules on their E-160s and found it to be so, so I didn’t have to bother. Too lazy!!!
By-the-by, my E-160/10Micron rig is doing fantastically well at the DSP-Remote obsy farm I just set it up at, and I have VOYAGER to thank for that. I don’t do crap anymore (though I do, for some weird reason, like to watch it take dawn flats via the log; I’m weird that way). It’s ALL automatic for years and years of targets.