Hunga-Tonga Volcano As you are aware, a massive volcanic eruption took place in the southern Pacific Ocean at the weekend. At the time of writing the exact extent of the catastrophe is not yet clear. Simon Lewis has provided us with evidence of the tremendous forces of nature at play, captured by his CloudWatcher and […]
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,
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
Hive Now that the CloudWatcher is able to measure more weather data than ever, that is: ambient temperature, sky reflected IR, humidity, atmospheric pressure, rain, wind… we are reactivating a project of old to apply machine learning to cloud and rain detection. The idea is to collect a huge amount of data, cloudwatcher sensor data and
Hi all,
we are releasing a new version of the CloudWatcher software, with complete support for both the RH and the newer dual RH + Atm pressure sensor.
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
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
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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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
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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