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Focusers with custom Lunatico plate & cylinder

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SELETEK ARMADILLO – PLATYPUS – LIMPET Focusers with custom Lunaticoplate & cylinder BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) FOCUSERS ADAPTED TO SELETEK ONLINE DOC. SELETEK’S HELP SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Assembling Instructions of customized Seletek plates & cylinders Baader Steeltrack Diamond Baader Steeltrack (older model – pre-Diamond) FeatherTouch style crayford FeatherTouch style […]

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Firmware and software

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SELETEK ARMADILLO – PLATYPUS – LIMPET Firmware and software BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) FOCUSERS ADAPTED TO SELETEK ONLINE DOC. SELETEK’S HELP SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Windows Users ASCOM: if not already installed, please download and install the ASCOM platform for the Seletek software to work, even if you plan to

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Seletek Tarsier

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TARSIER The most advanced autonomous focus controller. BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL FOCUSERS ADAPTED TO SELETEK MORE INFO Seletek TARSIER, for astrophotographers who prefer leaving the computer at home. Every Seletek family motor, coupling and focusing accesories will work with the Tarsier, and it will also drive stepper motors from almost any

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Seletek – Armadillo – Platypus

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SELETEK – ARMADILLO – PLATYPUS Seletek Limpet BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) FOCUSERS ADAPTED TO SELETEK ONLINE DOC. SELETEK’S HELP SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO The Lunatico’s original astronomical controllers for focusers, rotators, filter wheels, mirror fans and other low power devices. Things you can do with your ARMADILLO or PLATYPUS: →

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Why is the CloudWatcher software signalling unsafe?

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AAG CLOUDWATCHER Why is the CloudWatcher software signaling unsafe? BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO With all the options and situations, sometimes it’s difficult to find out where last night’s unsafe came from. Specially true as the data in the user data file (or Solo graphs)

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CloudWatcher as a watchdog

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AAG CLOUDWATCHER CloudWatcher as a watchdog BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Being able to use the CW as a watchdog (“watching” PC activity, and closing the relay in case the PC freezes) is a well known CloudWatcher feature, but one happy user, Vincent Steinmetz, just drew our

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Setting up a simple web server with AAG CW information

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AAG CLOUDWATCHER Setting up a simple web server with AAG CW information BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO I’ve just been asked about checking the AAG CloudWatcher information from a smartphone, so I set up a very simple web server publishing the AAG graphs. You can

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CloudWatcher, for backyard observatories

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CLOUDWATCHER Essential for Backyard Observatories BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for CloudWatcher Why CloudWatcher is Ideal for Home Observatories If your observatory is just a few meters away… a simple way to go to sleep with peace of mind (well, some…) is to

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Automatic start of CW software

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AAG CLOUDWATCHER Automatic start of CW software BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO NOTE: this is not necessary for current versions. To avoid having to manually launch AAG’s CW software each time  … first step is to define no users in Windows, then it will automatically

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Parking the mount

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AAG CLOUDWATCHER Parking the mount BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO Is one of the most important actions we may want to execute, in case of unsafe weather, before closing the roof, etc. This is extremely easy from a script (be it one of the Dragonfly

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