PrimaLuceLab Installation Team just upgraded the SPIDER 300A radio telescope installed in Medicina radio telescopes Visitor Center! Originally installed in 2018, the SPIDER 300A now has a new antenna, a larger and more precise mount (new design with electronics and cables integrated in the mount head) and new receiver and…
PrimaLuceLab Team completed the installation of a new SPIDER 300A, the 3 meter diameter compact radio telescope for 1420 MHz radio astronomy, in University of Lincoln (UK)!
ECCO2 is designed to be connected to finder shoe of your telescope and it comes with an adapter that allows you to connect it to the finder shoe. Insert the ECCO2 to the adapter and lock it by using the 2 grub screws provided in the box. If your telescope…
If you see the “No ECCO found” after you press ECCO button, this may be related to 3 causes: – EAGLE Manager: please make sure you are using the latest version of EAGLE Manager you can download from the DOWNLOAD section of our website. Also please make sure the EAGLE…
ECCO2 is designed to work with the EAGLE (compatible with EAGLE4, EAGLE LE, EAGLE3 and EAGLE2 – in order to work with EAGLE2 it requires update of OS and EAGLE Manager to v3) and, in order to automatically control dew heater power it doesn’t need any external software. In order to…
ESATTO is able to use a probe to detect ambient temperature. If, when you connect the probes and activate the connection to ESATTO 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: the temperature…
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!
