POCKETCW2
The improved version of our previous PocketCloudWatcher.
The portable solution for cloud detection, measuring sky quality, measuring the temperature, the relative humidity, the dew point, detecting wind, with GPS location, and all of it accessible from the phone and the PC.
Latest pocketCW2 news!
—March 2025: new ASCOM observing conditions and safety monitor driver released.
—October 2024: new pocketCW2 configuration Windows application released (allows configuring K-factors, safety limits, wind…).
—March 2024: new CloudWatcher and pocketCW data display software released.
—April 2023: the pocketCW2 is launched.
—January 2019: the pocketCW makes it to Sky & Telescope‘s Hot Products list!
—June 2018: the pocketCW (the pocketCW2’s predecessor) is launched.
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LUA inside
Main Features:
Able to measure sky quality
Includes 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi
Includes GPS
ASCOM – Alpaca
Indi – Indigo
Configurable alarms for each of the readings (1), for the battery level and the data updates (“watchdog” function)
With PC connection through USB-C connector
Works with an internal rechargeable LIPO battery (optional)
PocketCW2 is the improved version of the PocketCW – Sky & Telescope Hot Product 2019
Take the pocketCW2 with you to your favourite dark sky site, and sleep relaxed while it monitors the sky and ambient conditions, waking you up in case of trouble.
✘Not to be permanently installed outside.
✘Not rain resistant.
Technical specifications
- Portable detector that includes:
- IR sensor – cloud detection
- Relative humidity sensor
- Ambient temperature sensor
- Atmospheric pressure sensor
- GPS
- Wind detection (crude)
- Light sensor: sky brightness expressed in mpsas (mag/arc.sec2)
- “Watchdog” function
- Can be connected to a PC through a USB-C
- With dichroic UV/IR filter *
- Power supply:
- Internal rechargeable LIPO battery (optional)
- External through USB type C
- Measurements: 71x71x27mm.
- Weight: <85 g.
If you are looking for a full feature sky weather conditions cloud detector that can be permanently installed outside , choose our CloudWatcher high precision and low-cost system for monitoring the sky conditions and measuring sky quality!
