This pocket-sized device is an all-around
astronomer/astro-photographer companion.
Smaller than the size of a cigarette box, and equipped with a variety of
digital sensors, can precisely report the ambient temperature, humidity,
pressure, cloud height, cloud coverage, astronomical daw, twilight time, and
the night sky brightness.
Uranus Meteo Station is housed in high quality, blue
aluminum anodized shell.
Digital
Environmental Sensors
Device “talks”
every second (configurable time interval) with a network of embedded sensors
and reports information on screen display.
Digital Operation
A fully digital
operation in combination with a red film display makes the control of the
device quick and simple. A couple of push-buttons on top of the device allows
you to slide from screen to screen and read different sensor metrics.
GPS Location
- Uranus Meteo
Sensor has an internal GPS receiver able to report:
- ·
Accurate
GPS Date and Time
- ·
Latitude
& Longitude
- ·
Speed
& Bearing
- ·
Altitude
- ·
Helps
to calculate the exact astronomical dawn and twilight time of your place.
Digital
Environmental Sensors
Device
“talks” every second (configurable time interval) with a network of embedded
sensors and reports the following information on the display.
- Ambient Temperature (°C or °F)
- Relative Humidity %
- Dew Point (°C or °F)
- Absolute Atmospheric Pressure – Sea Level Pressure
(hPa)
- Relative Atmospheric Pressure (hPa)
- Barometric and GPS (precise) Altitude (m
or ft.)
- Cloud Coverage % (Cloud Index)
- Cloud Temperature
- Cloud Height
Measurement
of the sky brightness can be achieved if you keep the right button pressed for
more than a second.
- Visual Sky Brightness (MPSAS, NELM and Bortle
Scale)
A
highly digital sensitive sensor measures the brightness of the night sky at a
30° angle. You can determine the sky’s brightness within seconds. The device
displays three different scales on-screen (magnitudes per arc second², visual
mags, lux).
Compare
the sky brightness at different sites or documentation of progressive light
pollution in your area.
Additional calculations
- Moon Phases
- Astronomical Sunrise & Twilight Time based
on GPS coords
On
Screen Display Menus
Uranus
Meteo Sensor displays all sensor readings on different menus that can be
accessed by the two buttons on the top of the handheld device
·
Imperial or Metric system
display can be configured via the Unity platform software
Other
Key Features
Memory
Banks
The device has an
internal memory able to store up to 1000 records. Each record includes all
sensor data and GPS coordinates. The software allows, via USB, to view and
export all of these data to Unity Platform maps, keeping historic records of
visited places.
Handheld
or PC
Uranus Meteo
Sensor can be used as a handheld device or plugged via a USB2 cable to your PC
or Laptop. The enclosure has 2 x 3mm holes at the bottom to securely lock the
device on your telescope or in your observatory.
GPS
port
GPS port allows
you to output full GPS NMEA messages to a serial device. The pinout is
compatible with 10Micron mounts.
Rechargeable
battery
The device has a
NiMH rechargeable (through USB-C port) battery pack.
Supported
By
ASCOM
6
Uranus Meteo
Sensor fully supports ASCOM 6 Observing Conditions. Metrics can be easily
displayed to imaging software such as SGPro on NINA.
Unity
Platform
Unity Platform allows monitoring and keeping a record of sensor data from day or night. Zoomable and exportable graphs keep a historic record of every observing session.
