The session on night of 29 Oct was me experimenting a bit. I've never really automated any of my planetary imaging sessions as for years I've used a mono camera with RGB, etc. filters in a manual filter wheel, so I've always sat at the scope to start individual captures and manually cycle through the filters between each capture or group of captures. Now that I'm using a colour camera, I don't need to touch the filter wheel unless I want to shoot IR or CH4 data, so I started to look at the Autorun feature in FireCapture. Also after running out of HD space on my laptop SSD during my last long session, I want to test using different capture speeds. Unfortunately, by the time I'd worked out how to set up Autorun, I only got to do a couple of speed tests before clouds shut me down. The earlier image was from 13x1min SERs captured at 124 fps (8ms), the later one 10x1min SERs at 100fps (10ms). I was intending to capture at some other speeds, so maybe that's for another session.
Aside from the capture speed test, the Autorun feature was great success. Whilst the seeing was fairly good, it was decidely breezy, which not only was shaking the scope quite a bit, but the wind chill on my body was something else. I therefore reconfigured where I'd set up my table and laptop in the observatory, so that I had easier access to the observatory warm room, meaning that once I set Autorun going, I could retreat out of the wind to a much more comfortable location for several minutes at a time.