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%.
Thanks to its advanced features, the EAGLE is designed to let you remotely power and control even an observatory telescope, and monitor it by using outdoor cameras. In this article we’ll show how you can easily turn on your EAGLE powered telescope, remotely connect it through the Internet (so you…
Our galaxy is an SBbc medium size and mass spiral type. It is only partially visible, since we are inside it; the plane of the disk and the thousands of stars it contains appear to us as a milky white stripe on the celestial vault, called the Milky Way. The Galaxy is composed of a central core, a bulge, a disk and a halo. In particular, the disc contains the spiral arms. The spiral nature of the Milky Way was confirmed through the study of the distribution of the HII regions, consisting mainly of bright nebulae of ionized hydrogen (HII) that form right inside the spiral arms. The spiral arms are regions of active formation of new stars, dominated by young stars, dust and gas.
In this conference paper, we present the development of radio astronomy in Hong Kong in 21 cm wavelength since 2006. We discuss the subtropical region with its usual cloudy condition in Hong Kong for launching radio astronomy. The MIT small radio telescope and Italy SPIDER radio telescope series were good starting points to create radio astronomy for a dense human populated region like Hong Kong. We present some interesting results with respect to these two types of radio telescopes. We also introduce the future possibility for the developing radio interferometry array in Hong Kong for research and teaching.
When you power on the EAGLE, Windows starts and, after a short time, EAGLE Manager X is automatically launched: this creates the EAGLE’s WiFi network (named EAGLExxxxx corresponding to your EAGLE serial number) that you can use to wirelessly connect to the EAGLE. In this article we describe how to…
If you want to control your ESATTO focuser by using the EAGLE or a standard Windows computer, you can use PLAY astrophotography software. PLAY allows you to control all the PrimaLuceLab devices within a single platform so you can make astrophotography in the easiest way with the camera and mount…
