The telescope mount is a Paramount Me - a brilliant piece of engineering that provides the accuracy that is needed in good telescope pointing.  It is mounted on a pillar that originally held the Meade LX200 mount and telescope from which I removed the OTA to use with the Paramount.

The ability to thread the cables through the mount removes all trailing wires so that the worry of snagged wires is removed when operating the telescope remotely.  

The mount is connected via a USB cable to the laptop in the dome and is controlled by The Sky software from Software Bisque. Power to the dome is maintained continually and the laptop is never switched off. Although many observatories leave their Paramount permanently on I prefer to switch it on remotely from the house using a simple RF socket based remote controller, Often weeks will pass without a clear sky so I prefer to switch it on as required. I use similar devices to switch a white or red light on inside the dome when needed. An inexpensive monochrome security camera allows me to monitor the telescope position from my study. The laptop can be accessed from computers inside the house by using VNC (free) software which allows me to use the laptop as though I was in the dome meaning that I can set up the imaging scripts, connect the telescope to The Sky, switch on the camera and set up files etc as well as actually taking images remotely.