How does a radio telescope work? Discover how our technologies allow you to own and operate an affordable system to capture and analyze radio waves coming from space: in-house design, integration and test.
Would you like for us to build a radio telescope at your location? Our team is able to ship to you and install one or more of our radio telescopes – here what you need to know beforehand.
PLAY allows you to control also setups composed by 2 telescopes on a single mount: now you can control 2 optical tubes (OTA1 and OTA2) that have dual focusers, dual rotators, dual flat field generators and dual telescope cover motors! Also the “Connect All” feature allows you to connect to…
ALTO telescope cover motor includes remote control capabilities with specially designed electronics that allow you to connect it to a computer’s USB port and open/close telescope cap. In order to start using ALTO, please follow this procedure:
To install ALTO on your telescope and connect it to GIOTTO, first remove the plastic thumbscrews from GIOTTO (the ones used to to attach GIOTTO to front of your telescope – these will not be needed when you used with ALTO). Connect the Cable Locking Clip by attaching it to…
ALTO telescope cover motor offers USB and 12V power passthrough plugs to improve cables management when you use it together with GIOTTO smart flat field generator. In fact on one side of the ALTO you will find a 12V and USB port (type-C) to connect to your computer and to…
ALTO telescope cover motor can also be controlled within third party software applications such as Sequence Generator Pro or NINA via ASCOM using the included “PLL ASCOM CoverCalibrator” driver (ASCOM platform version 7 or later required). The ASCOM platform is available for free download at their website – https://ascom-standards.org
GIOTTO smart flat field generator for telescopes is our most advanced device to record flat frames so you can calibrate your astrophotography pictures. And we designed GIOTTO in order to let you easily connect to different telescopes: that’s why GIOTTO is available in different diameters, starting from 120mm. In this…
SPIDER 300A is the 3 meter diameter radio telescope that provides an affordable and compact solution for radio astronomy education and outreach! In this article we show the entire installation that we completed near Prague in Czech Republic on the behalf of a private user. In fact the SPIDER radio…
Compact SPIDER 300A radio telescope has been used to study the partial solar eclipse at 21 cm wavelength, with magnitude 0.89, in Hong Kong on 21st June, 2020. The radio telescope SPIDER 300A was designed and constructed by the PrimaLuceLab company, Italy. Radio flux density time curves (light curve) and a two-dimension mapping of the eclipse are presented in this paper. Standard radio data reduction methods were used to obtain the intensity time curve. We also adopted the semi-pipeline method for the reduction of data to obtain the same results as with the built-in software of the radio telescope SPIDER 300A. The total solar radio flux of the eclipse was found to reduce by maximum 55±5%, while the maximum eclipsed area of the same eclipse is 86.08%.
