Customized Power*Star
One of the early customers for Power*Star is planning to use it with a single-board computer (SBC) at the telescope, and asked me to customize the enclosure to allow mounting the SBC on top of P*S. It is more than worth noting here that where to locate the host computer is an important question. Some competitive products to P*S have a built-in processor (ranging from small Raspberry Pi boards to full-blown Windows machines with high-end Intel processors), while others take the same approach as P*S, providing only the features specific to astrophotography. While it is sometimes convenient to have everything […]