For a long time, we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet as a very convenient way of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment. We added support for them in the Solo CloudWatcher, and then explained how to send the messages from scripts, so they could be issued from almost all of our products. Just now, we’ve added …
PushBullet notifications – now from the Dragonfly Read More »
I’m not the first to become a bit tired of shooting pretty pictures every night. Maybe it’s just I’m not too self-demanding, but I can only make so many pictures with the same telescope and camera. Looking for something else to do with my time and equipment, I decided to give a try and capture …
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 …
Some notes about cloud detection and the CloudWatcher Read More »
Autoguiding is one of the most challenging tasks to master in astrophotography; nowadays, with digital cameras (CCD or CMOS), manual guiding makes no sense, as it is almost impossible to keep the required accuracy, even more with the ever-increasing exposure times everyone is using.
With recent Windows 10 “updates”, and the treatment Microsoft is giving to all computers and networks, as if all were in a “high risk” zone, many security policies conspire to make simple devices, such as our Dragonfly, Platypus or SOLO CloudWatcher, more difficult to access in the network. With a few tricks, however, this can …
Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network Read More »
The Lunático plates, and others, are designed for been apt to be easily adapted for the use that you wish to give them.
That is the reason why we make them in solid aluminum that shows much less machining problems that extruded forms.
We need:
From Lunático we have been playing around a little bit with Node-RED – as they say “…a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.” Truth is, it is fun, quite easy, and very useful and interesting things can be accomplished with relatively little effort. I set …
Node-RED tutorial (for Dragonfly and CloudWatcher SOLO) Read More »
LUNÁTICO ASTRONOMÍA POCKET CLOUD WATCHER (“Astronomía” Magazine nº. 238 – April 2019) This month we bring a sort of personal weather guard. A small station that works along with a mobile application to inform us about local meteorological conditions in real-time. Lunatic Astronomical has marketed a small meteorological station for the observatory and the astrophotographer. …
Why is an external controller like the Armadillo, Platypus, Tarsier or Limpet better than an “all in one” (focuser with embedded motor and cables)?
