SOLUTIONS – MOUNTING SYSTEM
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS TELESCOPE MOUNTING SYSTEM DuoScope, the best solution to reduce the weight of your equipment.
General
SOLUTIONS – DEW HEATER
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS DEW HEATER ZeroDew, the control system for all your anti-dew needs.
SOLUTIONS – AUTONOMOUS FOCUS CONTROLLER
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS AUTONOMOUS FOCUS CONTROLLER Tarsier, for the astrophotographers who prefer leaving the computer at home.
SOLUTIONS – CLOUD DETECTION
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS CLOUD DETECTION AND SKY QUALITY MEASURING CloudWatcher, measuring sky conditions since 2008. PocketCW2, portable cloud detector. The SOLO CloudWatcher, designed to make the most of the AAG CloudWatcher. Lanternfish, measures MPSAS with date and time, accessible via Wi-Fi and built-in web interface.
SOLUTIONS – FOCUSER AND ROTATOR CONTROLLERS
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS FOCUSER AND ROTATOR CONTROLLERS Seletek Armadillo, Limpet & Platypus, the most versatile astronomical peripheral
SOLUTIONS – OBSERVATORY CONTROL
OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS OBSERVATORY CONTROL Dragonfly, to remotely control your roll-off roof observatory Beaver, Lunatico’s NexDome controller Caterpillar, Lunatico’s dome controller
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 only make so many pictures with the same telescope and camera. Looking for something else to do with my time and equipment, I decided to give a try and capture
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 than the human eye, and then not always! The CloudWatcher, like most devices, uses IR measurement as the basic tool to determine if the sky is clear or not. A
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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 station that works along with a mobile application to inform us about local meteorological conditions in real-time. Lunatic Astronomical has marketed a small meteorological station for the observatory and the astrophotographer. In
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)?