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Hardware supported by RTS2
Mounts
- EPICS based mounts, particularly CAHA 1.23m (driver is close-source, EPICS connection is public)
- Millennium Mount with Dynostar X3
- ProjectSoft ASCOL protocol (close-source)
- MDM custom protocol (read-only for telescope movement; close-source)
- Astro-Physics GTO GTOCP2 (GTOCP3)
- Customs drivers, including modelling capability
- Any telescope supported with INDI protocol (with rts2-teld-indi-bridge)
CCDs
- Full range of the SBIG parallel and USB port cameras<
- All Starlight Linux minidriver based cameras (Starlight XPress, FLIcam, cookbook..)
- Apogee cameras, including ALTA family (most probably only with patched drivers - instructions are provided)
- FLI cameras supported with libfli
- Andor CCDs
- custom CCDs controlled with EDT board
- CAHA-MPIA?? range of CCDs
- ARC / Leach controller CCDs (version 1.7 and 2.0 of the API)
- MI CCD Moravian Instruments CCDs
- some Webcams with V4L driver
Focusers
Filter wheels
Field rotators
- Astelco open TPL rotators
Photomultipliers
- Optec SP5 with special ISA card (own kernel driver for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels)
Mirrors
- Own mirror design (ask Petr Kubanek for details)
- Pi4 mirror (Bootes IR)
Dome controllers
- Arduino boards (details soon)
- Ford Dome control (ask Ford for board details)
- Dome control based on some PCI card (Dublin dome)
- TI PCI I/O card dome controller with Comedi
- Zelio Modbus/TCP-IP control Description
Cupola controllers
- Prague Observatory Astrolab controller
- Observatory Vermes dome controller
Meteo stations
- All meteo stations supported with Meteo package (Davis Vantage,..)
- All meteo stations which can transmit to RTS2 UDP packets (as does one at the Pierre-Auger site)
- Comedi supported data acquisition boards
Cloud and rain sensors
- Custom OpenSource MRAKOMĚR series cloud sensors MRAKOMĚR 3 and MRAKOMĚR 4.1 its sold by UST in theirs e-shop. MRAKOMĚR is suitable for hard weather conditions.
- AAG cloud, rain and brightness sensor, home page of António Alberto Peres Gomes the designer of the hardware and the MS Windows software.
- Boltwood Cloud Sensor II
UPS
Sensors, special devices
- Cryocoon cryogenic controller
- Keithley (pico)ampermeters
- Phytron stepper motors
- Aerotech arm (A3200)
- MS257 monochromator
- DS21 stepper motor
- Newport light source
- Brooks 356 Micro-Ion® Plus Modules pressure sensor
- Lakeshore cryogenic controller (325, 330)
- TRIAX Series (Jobin Yvon/Horiba) monochromator
- Newport MM2500 stepper controller
- Rotronic MOK-WIN/ HygroWin humidity and temperature sensor
- ThorLabs laser source
- NI Motion based PCI stepper motor controllers (NI 7332 with MID-7604 is tested)
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