ECCO uses probes that detect temperature of the optics and that allow ECCO to automatically control power supply to the dew heaters. If, when you connect the probes and activate the connection to ECCO from the EAGLE Manager, you do not get any temperature reading, this could be due to…
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…
The computer that is built in into the EAGLE is able to boot when you connect the EAGLE to a power unit or a battery with voltage starting 10V up to 15V. Please remember that voltage is not power capacity and, when selecting the correct power source for your EAGLE,…
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!
PrimaLuceLab team installed more SPIDER 500A radio telescopes at the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences & Technology! In April 2019 we installed the first 5 meter diameter radio telescope and now we added two more in preparation to use together as the first interferometry array composed of SPIDER radio telescopes!
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.
The 3 meter radio telescope is controlled remotely by the University of Cape Town thanks to RadioUniversePRO software: it allows work out plenty of radio astronomy programs for education. PrimaLuceLab team completed the installation and recorded the first light!
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:…
Weather conditions in UK are generally bad for astronomy since rains are very common in all the year. But for radio astronomy, especially at 1420 MHz, the weather condition is not a problem and PrimaLuceLab radio telescopes have been design for this task too! That’s why we just installed the…
PrimaLuceLab SPIDER 500A, the 5 meter diameter professional radio telescope, has been installed at the Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences, close to Dubai in the United Arabic Emirates. In the picture, from the right: Filippo Bradaschia (PrimaLuceLab president), Issam S. Abujami (SCASS IT & System Specialist), Professor Ilias…
