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SOLUTIONS – FOCUSER AND ROTATOR CONTROLLERS

OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS End of Life Notice The Lunaticoastro focuser and rotators controllers, including Seletek Armadillo, Limpet, Platypus and Tarsier, have reached End of Life (EOL) status. Manufacturing has ceased and any remaining units are available only while stocks last. Documentation and software downloads will remain available whenever possible, but compatibility with future […]

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SOLUTIONS – OBSERVATORY CONTROL

OUR ADVANCED REMOTE OBSERVATORY SOLUTIONS OBSERVATORY CONTROL Starling, multi-user control for shared observatories. New! Dragonfly, to remotely control your roll-off roof observatory Beaver, Lunatico’s NexDome controller Caterpillar, Lunatico’s dome controller

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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

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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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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)?

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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.

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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.

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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 mejora la precisión de la puesta en estación de una montura ecuatorial. Veamos cómo funciona. FIGURA 1. El Polemaster se posiciona por mérito propio como un accesorio indispensable si necesitas

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EZG & Lunatico’s finderscopes an guide tubes

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.

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SOLUTIONS – FOCUSER AND ROTATOR CONTROLLERS

SOLUTIONS – OBSERVATORY CONTROL

Exoplanet hunting for the bored astronomer

About focuser controllers

Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO)

TARSIER – Test report

Polemaster – Test report

Why is it best to guide with a short scope?

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