Add Moon angle in sequencer conditions

[Cedric Raguenaud]

I’ve looked at the code but didn’t see it: useful especially when doing wideband, having a minimum angle away from the moon condition in the sequences would be good.

It could work like the sun altitude condition.

[George Hilios]

Cedric, the moon moves at close to the sidereal rate in the sky - close enough that the angle between it and every other object in the sky doesn’t vary much throughout the night. Do you have an example where this would be useful?

[Cedric Raguenaud]

Hi George,

I wasn’t thinking in be terms of running the sequence, but in terms of defining it so that if the target is too close to the moon, it would be skipped (in the case where you have a bunch of targets in your sequence). Useful when doing colour images and you don’t want to aim too close to the moon but your target still take several moon cycles to complete.

Not an important feature, but would be useful for long term targets without having to delete/recreate the sequence for the target all the time.

Thanks.

[George Hilios]

Ohh I get it now. Thanks for explaining.

[Stefan B]

Plugin Moon Angle should provide the functionality described here.

[Stefan B]

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