General
Lunatico’s telescope pier head
Lunatico’s telescope pier head versus other options in the market Please avoid this: … this is probably the most common type of telescope pier head
26 March 2021
Post list
- Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO)
- Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever
- PushBullet, PushOver – instant notifications
- PushBullet notifications – now from the Dragonfly
- Exoplanet hunting for the bored astronomer
- Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose?
- Some notes about cloud detection and the CloudWatcher
- Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network
- Simple setup to safely close the roof with the CloudWatcher
- PocketCloudWatcher: Test report
- Why is it best to guide with a short scope?
- About focuser controllers
- How to drill aluminium?
- Nina and GNS
- Remotely unplugging a USB device
- Lunatico’s telescope pier head
- 10 Micron Mount network utility – a free tool by Lunatico Astronomia
- TARSIER – Test report
- Polemaster – Test report
Categories
Post list
- Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO)
- Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever
- PushBullet, PushOver – instant notifications
- PushBullet notifications – now from the Dragonfly
- Exoplanet hunting for the bored astronomer
- Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose?
- Some notes about cloud detection and the CloudWatcher
- Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network
- Simple setup to safely close the roof with the CloudWatcher
- PocketCloudWatcher: Test report
- Why is it best to guide with a short scope?
- About focuser controllers
- How to drill aluminium?
- Nina and GNS
- Remotely unplugging a USB device
- Lunatico’s telescope pier head
- 10 Micron Mount network utility – a free tool by Lunatico Astronomia
- TARSIER – Test report
- Polemaster – Test report
Autonomous focus controller
Nina and GNS
N.I.N.A. and GNS We are proud to announce that, thanks to Nick Hardy, N.I.N.A. finally supports the Good Night System. It has been achieved by
26 March 2021
Cloud detection
Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose?
Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose? Capacitive sensor Hydreon RG-9 sensor High sensitivity Very high sensitivity Some indication of the amount of
18 March 2021
Focuser control
Remotely unplugging a USB device
Remotely unplugging a USB device So you’re sitting comfortably at your observatory, or even at your home (maybe far far away from the telescope) and
19 February 2021
Cloud detection
Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever
Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever. With the new Solo software version, it will happily publish your data to a MQTT broker, so you
8 February 2021
General
10 Micron Mount network utility – a free tool by Lunatico Astronomia
It will allow you to power it off, or check if it is on or off. A very simple tool, but useful for owners of
29 January 2021
Observatory control
PushBullet, PushOver – instant notifications
From Lunático we have been playing around a little bit with Node-RED – as they say “…a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.”
Truth is, it is fun, quite easy, and very useful and interesting things that can be accomplished with relatively little effort.
28 May 2020
Observatory control
PushBullet notifications – now from the Dragonfly
For a long time, we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet as a very convenient way of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment. We added support for
3 December 2019
General
Exoplanet hunting for the bored astronomer
I’m not the first to become a bit tired of shooting pretty pictures every night. Maybe it’s just I’m not too self-demanding, but I can
17 October 2019
Cloud detection
Some notes about cloud detection and the CloudWatcher
Cloud detection is, unfortunately, not straightforward. Nobody has yet found a fail-proof way to determine the degree of cloudiness of the sky, other of course
3 October 2019
Cloud detection
PocketCloudWatcher: Test report
LUNÁTICO ASTRONOMÍA POCKET CLOUD WATCHER (“Astronomía” Magazine nº. 238 – April 2019) This month we bring a sort of personal weather guard. A small
1 April 2019
Autoguiding
About focuser controllers
Why is an external controller like the Armadillo, Platypus, Tarsier or Limpet better than an “all in one” (focuser with embedded motor and cables)?
3 March 2019
Cloud detection
Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network
With recent Windows 10 “updates”, and the treatment Microsoft is giving to all computers and networks, as if all were in a “high risk” zone,
9 January 2019
Cloud detection
Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO)
From Lunático we have been playing around a little bit with Node-RED – as they say “…a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.”
Truth is, it is fun, quite easy, and very useful and interesting things that can be accomplished with relatively little effort.
15 June 2018
Autoguiding
TARSIER – Test report
This month we tested a versatile focus motor manufactured by Lunático; the so-called Tarsier. It is a fully autonomous motorized focuser system, without the need for a computer and compatible with most of the focusers on the market. Let’s see how it works.
18 May 2018
Cloud detection
Simple setup to safely close the roof with the CloudWatcher
If you have a simple roof automation, maybe a garage-door system, there is an effective way to close the roof in case of unsafe weather, including sunrise, with no risk of opening it again (unless manually, for the next session).
18 April 2018
Autoguiding
Polemaster – Test report
Revista ASTRONOMIA nº215 | mayo 2017 No hace mucho, Lunático sacó al mercado un buscador de la Polar electrónico. Se trata de un accesorio que
3 May 2017
Autoguiding
Why is it best to guide with a short scope?
Autoguiding is one of the most challenging tasks to master in astrophotography; nowadays, with digital cameras (CCD or CMOS), manual guiding makes no sense, as it is almost impossible to keep the required accuracy, even more with the ever-increasing exposure times everyone is using.
15 February 2008
General
How to drill aluminium?
The Lunático plates, and others, are designed for been apt to be easily adapted for the use that you wish to give them.
That is the reason why we make them in solid aluminum that shows much less machining problems that extruded forms.
We need:
11 June 2007