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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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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CLOUDWATCHER Android Widget for CW Solo Users BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for CloudWatcher Key Features of the Android Widget It uses our new “ZeroConf” system so no network knowledge required! Download the app from here you’ll have to give your phone permissions
