Remote Observing

[astrotom]

Hello,

I've got a ton of questions but don't know where to find the answers. Here's the situation: over the next 18 months I'll be building a observatory for imaging purposes. It will be about 100 feet from my warm house where I'd like to control things. Where can I find info on how to do the following:

1) Remotely control the Temma mount.
2) Remotely control the focuser on a Mewlon using the Filos Allos.
2) Slave the dome to turn with the mount (Ash dome)
3) Remotely control an SBIG camera and access the image.

I'm no electrical engineer so I'm hoping to find-off-the-shelf solutions.

Please point me in the right direction if you can on any of these topics. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Tom Pauly

[Sky Guy]

You might try this Yahoo! group, they have alot of the information that you are looking for.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Observatories/