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Latest Product News

Latest product news An overview of our products’ latest milestones! ~ The spotlight ~ The spotlight is reserved for a recent piece of news related to one of our products that is of particular interest. New CloudWatcher and pocketCW data display software released! The long anticipated new Windows software is now available in its very […]

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POCKETCW2 More information BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL pocketCW2 USER MANUAL pocketCW v.1.0 SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS User manuals The essentials: User manual First steps (PC) First steps (smartphone) Other guides: pocketCW2 configuration with Windows Calibrating the darkness reference value Other info General information: Launch information and features Other articles: New

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Caterpillar

CATERPILLAR Roof and dome products Caterpillar USER MANUAL Latest Caterpillar news! —November 2023: the CaterpillarR (relay-focused model) is released into the market (not in the online shop yet, reach out if you’re interested!).   Curious about news relating to other products? Check out our latest product news page. You can also join our product news

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LATEST NEWS!

LATEST NEWS! 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 a page recording our products’ latest news, and a newsletter about them 2023 Dec: You can now see some of the companies and institutions that

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Beaver

BEAVER NexDome controller SOFTWARE & ASCOM driver Windows USB driver USER MANUAL FIRMWARE (only for updates) Latest Beaver news! —January 2024: Beaver software and driver updated to version 1.2. —March 2021: Lunático and NexDome join forces to develop the Beaver, a dome controller electronics and software for NexDome Dome Rotation and Shutter kits. Curious about

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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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CloudWatcher with Hydreon rain gauge rg-9

Rain sensor: Capacitive or Hydreon version, what to choose?

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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Assembling Instructions of Seletek

Assembling Instructions for customized Seletek plates & cylinders SELETEK – ARMADILLO – PLATYPUS – LIMPET – TARSIER Generic model Baader Diamond Steeltrack (BDS) Takahashi models GSO basic model GSO basic model (improved plate!) GSO Monorail 2″ & 3″ Celestron & Meade SC GSO focuser with Seletek plate cylinder and motor Tecnosky focuser with Seletek plate

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How the Hydreon Rain Sensor works

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

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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