rDUINOScope Boiana

Some of you probably know that rDUINOScope’s initial idea was to be a Free, German Equatorial Mount controller (GEM GoTo). Which it did so far, but down the road I realized something that was an elementary truth for many amateur astronomers before me…. Ain't nothing better than a good-old Fat Dobsonian!

How nice it would be to control it effortlessly and best of all, not chasing the object, but admire the stunning views!

Well, we are almost there now! I have just completed the main adaptation of the code to control AltAz mounts, and as you can see…. It's Alive!

It still needs alignment methods to be added and to test it on the field, but so far the tests indoors are very convincing!

I have just completed some code optimizations on rDUINOScope V2.1 Boiana EQ and they are about to be tested on the field. Some of achieved optimizations:

- SlewTo Speed increased 32% (2.75 deg/sec limited now by the DRV8825);
- Main Loop() optimized to free additional resources for future add-ons;

rDUINOScope website has been moved to a new locations: http://rduinoscope.byethost24.com.

I needed to do this because of the bandwidth limitation and because the hosting provider keeps adding rules and restricts the free sites. This got to a point where it become unmanageable. The new website have lot of potential to handle traffic and is much better.

Current released version : V2.1 Boiana EQ. Available for download at http://rduinoscope.co.nf/index.html

In development is a version for Alt_Az mounts which will be available soon as V2.1 Boiana Alt_Az