My trick: connect to the camera once y generate a serie of individual sequence files. For example, right now I have: 1h_120x30, 1h_60x60, 1h_30x120, 1h_20x180, 1h_15x240, 1h_12x300. I've also generated the 2h versions. On each of this sequence I've entered the gain, offset and desired temperature. I don't put any target on this sequences. I've stored all this seq files on the folder /home/Astroberry/Current and have used exactly this path as the destination folder to store the images.

Then I compose them with the desired targets on Scheduler module. I've been using this approach on the last month with great success (well, if you don't count for the clouds, obviously). Now, I can compose all my sessions offline, while I'm planning for the night to arrive.

And no, I don't have a remote (or local) observatory. My equipment is a 85/600 refractor on an EQ5 mount with OnStep driver all controlled by a raspberry pi running Astroberry . I put it outside, run polar alignment assistant, perform a guider calibration and once all is done, I start the scheduler to run the observing session.

Another trick: all this files are simple text files with XML format. It's really easy to edit any of them with a text editor to generate a similar (but different one). For example, the 2h_xxxx files where genrated from the 1h_ ones

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