If you can connect and control ARCO rotator but, when you command a rotation movement (also during calibration) ARCO is not moving and/or you hear a clicking sound, this could be due to 2 factors: 12V power is missing or worm gear adjustment is needed. In this article we see…
What are the results you can record with a radio telescope? In this article you can see spectra, cross-scans and radio maps you can record with SPIDER radio telescopes. When we record a picture of an Universe object, we usually use a digital camera that has many pixels (typically several millions). This way, when we record the picture, the light we receive “lighten” many pixel at the same time and each pixel records light coming from different sky areas. But, when we use radio telescopes, we record the signal from a single area of the sky (only large professional radio telescopes may have more LNA units), just as if our camera had only one pixel.
PLUS guide rings are available in different sizes and they allow you to install a guide telescope in parallel to the main one. PLUS guide rings are are made with high mechanical precision (built with CNC machines from aluminum block) and they’re designed for an easy connection to other PLUS…
PLUS dovetail clamps allows to connect Vixen-style and Losmandy-style dovetail bars and are available in different dimensions: this way you can always find the ideal solution for your telescope. Dovetail clamps can be used to replace standard clamps on many mounts, to clamp the EAGLE to dovetail bars, to provide…
If you want to install ARCO rotator on a focuser with SESTO SENSO 2 focusing motor, first of all you will have to add one of the many available optional adapters based on connector you have on your focuser’s draw tube: you may choose between a nose or an adapter…
If you want to install ARCO rotator on one of the ESATTO focusers, you have to add one of the many available optional adapters based on the models of ESATTO focuser and ARCO rotator you own. First of all please connect the optional adapter to the ESATTO focuser, by threading…
PLUS dovetail plates for telescopes offer holes, threaded holes and slots to connect other PLUS elements with standard M6 screws, with maximum rigidity and avoiding flexures. PLUS dovetail bars are available in Vixen and Losmandy styles and with different lengths. Like all the elements of the PLUS system, PLUS dovetail…
PLUS support rings are available in different diameters in order to fit different telescopes. All of them are provided with holes and threaded holes for M6 screws in order to let you easily connect to all the other PLUS elements like dovetail bars, guide rings and EAGLE control units. In…
Kielder Observatory, a public astronomical observatory providing great outreach activities, now has also a SPIDER 500A radio telescope for radio astronomy to let visitors experience the cosmos even in daytime or in typical UK cloudy conditions. PrimaLuceLab Installation Team completed the installation of the 5 meter diameter instrument with receivers,…
Astronomical observatories are often installed in remote and isolated places to avoid light pollution. In this article we will see how EAGLE helps control the remote observatory starting from the example of the Fiemme Astronomy Association that has an important astronomical observatory in Tesero (TN – Italy). The amateur astronomers in Fiemme…
