Astromechanics Light Pollution Meter PRO

Features

The Astromechanics Light Pollution Meter is a handheld / PC based monitoring tool to measure sky brightness in mag/arcsec2. Measurements are compatible with Unihedrons Sky Quality Meter (SQM). It features :

• Measure sky brightness in mag/arcsec2
• Store measurements in FITS-Header of your astro images
• Store measurement logs for later analysis

Main Control Tab

• Connection: Connect or Disconnect device
• Readings: last measured sky brightness, its average, minimum, and maximum values. All measurements in mag/argsec2. NELM (naked eye limit measurement) based on the conversion formula found at http://unihedron.com/projects/darksky/NELM2BCalc.html.
• Reset: Reset statistics of readings.
• Record file: directory and filename to store measurement log of LPM.
• Save and Discard readings.

Connection

The USB connection is made on the default port, or by autosearch. The device is recognized as a USB Serial converter. Baudrate at 9600 is mandatory.

Options

Polling period in ms.

No additional option as been implemented. Debug mode and configuration files are available.

Unit

Unit factory calibration data.