Monday, September 5, 2022

Automated Telescope Cooling with HomeAssistant

Automated Telescope Cooling with HomeAssistant
 

My telescope mirror is 15lbs of Pyrex glass and retains too much heat, so it has a custom TEC cooling system with fans, no big deal…( https://maphilli14.webs.com/apps/blog/show/21342955-akule-s-cooling )


The original fans are in the blog entry from the original creation of Akule in 2011 and I upgraded them in 2015 to these fans.

Why cool the heavy mirror?  It's #4 on my basics of high res planetary imaging - https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/p/seeing-collimation-and-focusing.html

"This means having no heat plumes inside your OTA that cause locally significant seeing issues.  It may be as simple as setting your scope outside a few hours before hand to help cool it.  The larger your mirror and the more closed your tube design the more help you'll need"


Here's a video overview that might help explain how I pulled all this together: Cooling unit, temp sensors and automated, unattended running of the cooling unit.


https://youtu.be/-UPKvhtHlFk




  1. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2021/05/akules-updated-cooling-fans.html  -  Akule's updated cooling fans
  2. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2021/06/why-do-you-need-to-cool-your-mirror-for.html  -  Why do you need to cool your mirror for high resolution imaging?
  3. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2021/08/building-dual-temperature-sensor-on.html   - Building a dual temperature sensor on a RaspberryPi for a custom telescope cooling system
  4. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2022/07/recording-temprature-data-to-influxdb.html  - Recording temprature data to InfluxDB for use within Grafana for display!
  5. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2022/07/adding-custom-telesccope-temp-sensors.html - Adding custom telescope temp sensors to HomeAssistant
  6. https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2022/09/automation-in-hass.html - Automation in HASS



 

Sunday, September 4, 2022

A new website

 Webs got bought out by the holding company of Wix, VistaPrint and twisted my arm to move


BUY 'EM OUT BOYS - Simpsons


Anyway, here's my new home - https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home

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