There’s a lot of misunderstanding about sensor sizes, much of it goes to the strange and convoluted manner in which they can be expressed. For smaller, compact cameras they’re given in fractions of an inch (1/N inch format)… We found a very interesting article about the dimensions of the Imaging sensor, if you want to […]
LATEST NEWS! 2025 Feb: It’s official—we’ll be attending this year’s NEAF. 2024 October: New pocketCW2 configuration application released. 2024 May: RTI-Zone releases free plugins for our devices. 2024 Mar: New CW and pocketCW Data Display software released! 2024 Jan: We become partners of ASG’s Astronomy Picture of the Month contest 2024 Jan: We now have
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 / mount coupling, and is to be avoided. Truth is, the base of the mount does not need to be perfectly level – what we’re looking for is a perfect alignment of the
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 developing a custom plugin – you’ll need a current “nightly” build at this moment. We are really happy to welcome N.I.N.A. to the GNS ecosystem – thank you, Nick! The
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 rain Indication Rain Yes/No Big surface Big surface Total Integration with CloudWatcher Very good integration with CloudWatcher Quite inexpensive More expensive (still reasonable) Strong heater valid for any weather condition
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Cloudwatcher + Solo, more IoT than ever. With the new Solo software version, it will happily publish your data to a MQTT broker, so you can receive it from anywhere. And maybe display it using Node-RED. It will also copy the ASCOM required data file to a NAS server of your choice. And will offer
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 the 10Micron mount 🙂Download the program from here Just extract the program into any suitable folder and execute it from the command line: c:astroutils> 10MicronMount Usage: 10MicronMount IPaddress [-s] [-v]
10 Micron Mount network utility – a free tool by Lunatico Astronomia Read More »
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OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS OBSERVATORY MONITORING Lunatico Last Line Of Defense will take control of things in case of need. Good Night System – GNS, the only true solution to be able to sleep.
