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Placement of the anemometer - cloudwatcher

CloudWatcher Anemometer Placement

CloudWatcher Anemometer Placement You’ve received the parcel with your brand new CloudWatcher and Solo plus accessories and are excitedly unboxing the contents and looking forward to setting up your observatory’s weather station.  At this moment, you might be inclined to dismiss the anemometer as a cheap piece of plastic that you could have built yourself, […]

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Emergency priority PushOver messages from the Dragonfly

Emergency priority PushOver messages from the Dragonfly Starting today, any PushOver message sent by the Dragonfly, if it includes the word Alarm (capital A), will be sent to your smartphone as emergency priority. This means: the message will be repeated every 30 seconds, until acknowledged, for as long as 10 minutes You can adjust PushOver

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CloudWatcher related software

New complete CloudWatcher software suite   Hi all, we are releasing updated versions of all CloudWatcher related software, that is, Windows software, Solo, and ASCOM drivers (INDIGO and INDIlib software have their own paths). These not only support our new combined RH+Pressure sensors, but in general provide more modern functionality, such as: – a new

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Hydreon rain gauge rg-9 adapted to CloudWatcher

How the Hydreon works with the CloudWatcher

How the Hydreon works with the CloudWatcher The Hydreon works by opening or closing a contact when it detects rain, and it’s been adapted to work with the CloudWatcher, who expects a variable reading depending on the amount of rain. A special cable has been devised, that will result in two different readings (from the

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Dragonfly to remotely control your roll-off roof observatory. Hot Product 2018 - Sky & Telescope.

CloudWatcher operated roll off roof

CloudWatcher operated roll off roof Many motor systems include a push button to open or close the roof. They typically require the button to be pushed for a short period of time, and that will trigger the roof to open if closed, or close if opened.  One safe way to have the CloudWatcher relay close

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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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Updating the Solo to version 3.0 and newer

The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER Upgrading the Solo to Version 3.x BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Upgrading to Firmware Version 3.x Versions from 3.0 are based on a more modern Linux operating system, which must be updated manually. A drive image of the latest version is always

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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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