All started here: the Astroinformatics 2019 hackathon at Caltech
Make use of INDI python client to control telescope pointing (or any INDI compatible devices) with Firefly - the idea is to select a target (ra,dec mainly) and take a picture from Firefly by passing the coordinates to the python client (see script ).
Once the exposure(s) is written out locally, we could also upload FITS produced into Firefly from the same python local session... Another step could be included but not added here is to solve/extract wcs/sources - this can be done with astropy/machine learning! See astrometry.net
INDI framework consist of connecting client and server to compatible devices, details: https://www.indilib.org
Docker image can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/r/ejoliet/pyindihub/tags
docker pull ejoliet/pyindihub
then run docker run -it <image-id> bash
Clone and get python scripts here
in another terminal : docker exec -it <container-id> bash, run indiserver -v indi_simulator_telescope indi_simulator_ccd.
Edit config.json files, and take picture python3 takeExposure.py config.json
(if using python2, please see code to change, mainly import cStringIO instead of import io)
Python3 was tested with Firefly Python client integration, see demo guide
See demo in youtube.
NOTE: We make use of Kstars software as a client and acting as a telescope/CCD simulator for testing INDI devices control.