Dragonfly for parking mounts and controlling humidifiers
Do you own a Dragonfly? Have you updated it to software version 2.5 and firmware version 4.6.7? If so, we have good news, because your Dragonfly has just become all the more useful!
Parking mounts
Your Dragonfly can now park mounts. Particularly, 10micron mounts (and other network-enabled mounts upon request). This means you’ll no longer need your computer to be working in order to safely park your mount.
Controlling humidifiers
Your Dragonfly can also now read weather data from a SOLO. This means you can, amongst other things, switch a humidifier ON or OFF depending on how close the dew-point is to ambient temperature, so as to protect your equipment, even with the observatory closed.
Both of these functionalities, along with plenty of others, can be achieved using Dragonfly macros. We have recently published a comprehensive manual on both simple and advanced macros, which you can find at this link.
Hopefully you’ll find these useful. Be sure to let us know if there’s anything else you’ve been wanting your Dragonfly to be able to do!
