• Troubleshooting: EAGLE Manager X no longer runs at startup

    Troubleshooting: EAGLE Manager X no longer runs at startup

    EAGLE Manager X is designed to automatically launch when you turn on the EAGLE, immediately after Windows boots. If this does not happen, it may be due to one of two reasons: a change in Windows settings or third-party software (such as an antivirus program) that prevents EAGLE Manager from…

  • Introduction to radio interferometry

    Radio interferometry is an advanced technique, developed by professional radio astronomers, that allows to use many smaller antennas instead of a too large one. In fact, when we think of a radio telescope, we imagine an instrument of enormous dimensions, equipped with a very large parabolic antenna that collects radio waves coming from space. By using many compact radio telescopes, radio interferometry improves results in radio astronomy research and allows the use of more affordable radio telescopes. For example, by using this technique the Event Horizon Telescope (an international collaboration of multiple radio telescopes from all over the world) recorded, in April 2019, the first radio map of a black hole inside the M87 galaxy, with an incredible resolution of 25 microarcseconds!

  • SPIDER 500A installed in Porto da Balsa radio astronomy station

    PrimaLuceLab team completed the installation of the 5 meter radio telescope that will be used by Telecommunication Institute of Aveiro (Portugal). SPIDER 500A will be remotely controlled thanks to RadioUniversePRO software.

  • Troubleshooting: SESTO SENSO temperature probe doesn't work

    Troubleshooting: SESTO SENSO temperature probe doesn’t work

    SESTO SENSO is able to use a probe to detect ambient temperature. If, when you connect the probes and activate the connection to SESTO SENSO from the FOCUSER Manager or PLAY, you do not get any temperature reading, this could be due to 2 factors: Probe connected after power up:…

  • What is radio astronomy?

    Radio astronomy is a fascinating science and it studies the Universe by detecting radio emission from many objects like the Sun, the Milky way, planets, galaxies and nebulas. In this presentation Filippo Bradaschia, PrimaLuceLab president and co-founder, gives an overview on radio astronomy history and basic physics. Then he introduces the most important radio sources in the Universe and the SPIDER affordable radio telescopes developed by PrimaLuceLab with Radio2Space brand. These instruments allow any school, university, museum or science institute to make real radio astronomy with powerful but affordable, compact and easy to use radio telescopes.