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! 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
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 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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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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Remotely unplugging a USB device So you’re sitting comfortably at your observatory, or even at your home (maybe far far away from the telescope) and you need to unplug and replug some device… the only way seems to be resetting the computer and that takes quite a long time. We’ll that was my case when
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AAG CLOUDWATCHER How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Extract taken from the page of the manufacturer Hydreon. Hydreon Optical Solid State Rain Sensors generate infrared light that is directed within the lens to detectors. When water drops hit the outside
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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
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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]
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