Worth it to use SeeStar remotely for better skies?
I live in a densely populated suburb of a large city. I have Bortle 8 skies (up from Bortle 7 a few years ago). I am disappointed in the quality I'm getting on galaxies like M81, even with 21 hours of data (and that's about the max I can process, it takes 500GB+ of free space to do it).
My in-laws have a house just ~15 minutes away out in the country, and they have Bortle 5 skies.
I'm thinking about taking the scope up there, and having my father in law just place it outside and turn it on for me on clear nights -- then it can run for 5-6 hours after they go to bed and I can get better quality imaging. It's possible to remote control it over the internet, right? I figure I can get several nights' worth of images on it before I have to download them/clear the storage. Their internet sucks, and my FiL isn't super technical, so this definitely means I'm driving up there every few days (assuming it's clear) to download everything.
I always hear people say that as the Bortle number gets higher, the amount of data you need to see improvement in your images increases exponentially. If I can get from Bortle 8 -> 5 with just a 30 minute round trip, and can get the SeeStar remote control to work, I assume that's worth it?