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Lunatico Software Security

Lunatico Software Security The Internet can be a dangerous place and even with modern antivirus software, it is possible to download malicious software masquerading as a legitimate product.  In recognition of this problem, reputable software companies such as Lunatico will always (except on beta versions) use a software certificate to confirm the validity of their […]

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After Sales Support Policy

Lunatico Support Policy At Lunatico we always strive to offer the best possible support, to make it as easy as possible to use our products, many of which are more complex than they might at first seem.  Indeed, some require a degree of programming knowledge in order to use them to their full potential. If you

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Helical microfocuser vs. traditional

Helical microfocuser vs. traditional https://youtu.be/LgTmL3pGtmY For guiding, and imaging in general, we prefer – by far – the traditional focuser (the black one in the video, our EZG); way more travel and, above all, much more rigidity.   Rigidity is, for sure, the most important feature of a guidescope, with (probably) field of view being

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Project Hive by Lunatico Astronomia

Hive

Hive Now that the CloudWatcher is able to measure more weather data than ever, that is:  ambient temperature, sky reflected IR, humidity, atmospheric pressure, rain, wind… we are reactivating a project of old to apply machine learning to cloud and rain detection. The idea is to collect a huge amount of data, cloudwatcher sensor data and

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Imaging sensor dimensions

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

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Lunático Astronomía logo - Innovation in astronomical solutions for remote observatories.

LATEST NEWS!

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

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Lunatico's telescope pier with head

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 / 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

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Good Night System GNS logo – solution for nighttime observatory monitoring.

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 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

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