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I just released Astra, so I'm impressed how quickly you got set up!
by pppone 7mo ago
I just released Astra, so I'm impressed how quickly you got set up!
- petee 7mo agoHow do you feel about Alpaca in actual use? I've been skeptical about controlling something expensive with a REST api, not that I have anything to back up that feeling, but it always raised my eyebrow
- pppone 7mo agoIt's been great. We've been operating with it at our observatories (SPECULOOS, ESO Paranal, Chile) for the past 2 years without issues that can be attributed to Alpaca. We had to modify the Alpyca library timeout from 5 to 60s (which Astra uses) given our legacy ASCOM drivers not being as compliant as they should be, but other than that it has worked well.