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PHD2 as safety device?

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While I don't do a lot of unattended imaging, there are nights when I would like to start a long imaging run and then go to bed. I know SGP will park the scope when the sequence completes. However, there is always the issue of clouds rolling in or high winds developing and either condition warrants an end of sequence action be taken.

I know a lot of imagers buy expensive weather stations for handling these situations but it occurred to me that PHD2 Guiding knows if it gets cloudy ("star lost") or if there are numerous, large guiding corrections (windy). So, could some future version of PHD2 Guiding have configuration options to treat these cloudy and / or windy conditions as if it were a safety device and report an unsafe condition to SGP?

Charlie


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