Asking for a little Script to developers

Sequence Generator
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I see you are not going to develop a featured requested for some people: “Rotating through Targets”.

At the moment, SGP can only “Rotate through events” inside a Target. But it has to finish all events before going to the next Target.

“Rotating through Targets” is a very interesting feature for lot of us:

  • Panel mosaics.
  • Astrometry
  • Comets and asteroids
  • Variable stars, etc

I don’t know anything about programming scripts, but I suppose that it should be very easy creating a Script that at the end of the sequence, it should reset the sequence and re-starts it.

In that way, if I create a sequence, for example, with 4 different targets, when all them are finished, instead of stopping the program, we can reset the entire sequence and beginning again.
It should be possible also adding a time counter (for example, re-start now or in one hour or X minutes). That it’s interesting for astrometry, as we need some time distance between new image shots. Also you need a variable counter, as you may need 1, 2 …n resets and stars.

I don’t really know if that kind of script is really easy or difficult, as I don’t know anything about programming.

What do you think? It sounds easy:
At the end of sequence:
For 1 to n

  • Reset sequence
  • Wait X minutes
  • Re-start the sequence
    Next n

Forgive me if my ignorance of programming makes me say silly things!
Fernando

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You can get the result you want by duplicating targets in the sequence. Suppose you want to rotate through targets A & B two times. Your sequence would look like this:
Target A
Target B
Target A
Target B

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