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Hardware supported by RTS2
This is list of devices supported by RTS2. Support is intended primary for Linux. Please contact us for details of device support.
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)
- Johnson 1.5m UNAM (proprietary bridge)
- Customs drivers, including modelling capability
- Mounts with SiTech controller
- 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 controlled CCDs (version 1.7 and 2.0 of the API)
- MI CCD Moravian Instruments CCDs
- some Webcams with V4L driver
- STA/Reflex controlled CCDs
- CCD3 controller (closed source, available through ProjectSoft)
- GigE cameras (closed source, available through ProjectSoft)
Focusers
- EPICS based focusers (CAHA, closed source, but EPICS connection class is open source)
- Optec focusers
- Robofocuser
- FLI focuser
- Pi4 focuser (Bootes IR)
- ATC-2 telescope control box (focusing, mirror temperature, …)
- Hedrick focuser (Planewave Instruments)
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
- Optec SP4/SP5 serial port based photomultiplier
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 (various models)
- Phytron stepper motors
- Aerotech arm (A3200)
- MS257 monochromator
- MS260 monochromator (and probably other Newport / Oriel models)
- DS21 stepper motor
- Newport light source
- Brooks 356 Micro-Ion® Plus Modules pressure sensor
- Lakeshore cryogenic controller (325, 330, 340)
- 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)
- HP Agilent E3631A tripower supply
- Zolix OmniLambda 150
- ThorLabs PM100D photodiode
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