ECU Pro by Nova Astronomics is an end-to-end observatory control and automation suite designed to make professional-grade astronomy accessible, reliable, and repeatable. From a single dashboard, ECU Pro unifies your mount, camera, filter wheel, focuser, dome or roll-off roof, power relays, and environmental sensors—so you spend less time managing devices and more time collecting quality data.
Key capabilities:
- Unified device control: Connects to popular mounts, cameras, focusers, domes, and rotators with broad ASCOM and INDI compatibility.
- Automated session planning: Build target lists, schedule windows, and run fully unattended sessions with smart sequencing and safe shutdown.
- Precision focus and guiding: Fast, repeatable autofocus routines and advanced guiding integrations for tighter stars and longer exposures.
- Safety-first operations: Live weather and cloud sensor monitoring, wind and rain thresholds, automatic park and shutter control, and fail-safe recovery.
- Power and thermal management: Control smart relays, dew heaters, and USB hubs, with real-time current draw and temperature readouts.
- Plate solving and pointing: Rapid, robust plate solving for accurate pointing, centering, and automated meridian flips.
- Real-time telemetry and analytics: Live graphs for focus, FWHM, guiding, and sky quality, plus session summaries and performance reports.
- Remote access and alerts: Secure remote control with role-based permissions, audit logs, and notifications via email, SMS, or chat.
- Flexible scripting and APIs: Extend workflows with Python scripting and a modern API for custom integrations and advanced automation.
- Cross-platform support: Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with an optional companion mobile view for status and controls.
Built for university labs, remote hosting sites, and serious amateurs, ECU Pro turns complex observatory operations into a dependable, repeatable process—night after night.
ECU Pro is developed by Nova Astronomics. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.0, 2.1, 5.0, 6.0 and 9.2. The names of program executable files are ECU Pro 9.1X.exe, ECU Pro 9.2.exe, ECU Pro 9.exe, ECU Pro.exe and ecu5.exe.
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