Paramount Apollo

Hardware Specifications

• 180 kg (400 lb.) instrument capacity. The extremely stable altazimuth mount design ensures stability, no matter what your project requires.
• Powerful three-axis industrial direct drive motor controller skillfully integrated into mount base.
• Ultra-fast, virtually silent slews (up to 60 degrees/second in all three axis).
• Includes the Paramount Software Suite; TPoint™ and the TCSpk™ provide Total Pointing Integrity™.
• Compact, high-torque industrial direct-drive motors in all three axes.
• High-resolution on-axis absolute encoders used in all three axes.
• The precision direct-drive instrument rotator has a 8.9 cm (3.5-inches) of clear aperture and uses high-capacity bearings to carry the heaviest instrument payloads. With rotation rates up to 60 degrees/second, there is never a need to wait for the rotator to “catch up” after a mount slew.

Software Specifications

• Includes the Paramount Software Suite (featuring TheSky™ Imaging edition, Dome Control, and more).  The USB thumb drive comes with installers that are compatible with macOS, Windows and Linux (ARM32, ARM64, and x86_64 architectures).
• Software features ProTrack™, Direct Guide™ (guider cable free autoguiding), TPoint Super Model™,
  All Sky Image Link™, Closed Loop Slew, @Focus™ automated focus, periodic error curve fitting,
  permanent periodic error correction, live stacking, dithering and more
• The Multi-OS Plus module lets you install and use TheSky on all your computers and operating systems while maintaining TheSky’s familiar look and feel.

Get in Touch!

Please contact Software Bisque so that we can design a complete imaging system that meets your project’s specifications.  Note that the optical tube assembly is sold separately.

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