✨ Find Your Perfect AstroLink
Power, control, and automation for your astrophotography setup – simplified.
✨ What AstroLink Does?
AstroLink is your telescope’s smart hub — designed to distribute power, control, protect, and automate your entire astrophotography setup.
Below are its core features explained in plain language:
⚡ Power Distribution
Provide stable power to all your system components while monitoring voltage, current, and energy consumption.
AstroLink ensures efficient and safe power delivery throughout your setup.
🌡️ Environment Conditions Monitoring
Measure temperature, humidity, dew point, cloud coverage / sky temperature, and sky brightness.
Use these readings to automate your imaging session, protecting your equipment and improving focusing reliability.
🎯 Focus Control
Connect your focusing motor and integrate with third-party acquisition software for complete control.
Achieve perfect, pinpoint stars every time with automated precision focusing and avoid temperature drift using compensation.
💧 Dew Heater Management
Regulate the power of heating stripes and automate heating based on relative humidity levels.
Keep your optics clear and your session uninterrupted, even under heavy dew.
🔌 USB Hub Integration
Use the integrated or stackable active USB hub — an essential part of most astrophotography setups.
Simplify cable management and keep your system organized.
🛡️ Protection Mechanisms
Monitor power conditions and energy usage, react automatically to irregularities, and raise alerts.
AstroLink works with the SafetyMonitor interface to track sky conditions and control acquisition software behavior.
📡 Remote Connectivity
Connect remotely using the integrated computer or any external PC of your choice.
Manage your entire telescope setup from anywhere — even your warm control room.
✨ Which AstroLink is for Me?
| Feature | MAX | micro | mini II | Bee | Pi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power outputs (switchable) | 4 (3) | 5 (3) | 4 (3) | 4 (3) | 4 (3) |
| Additional power output | 3-10V | ❌ | 3-10V, QC output | 3-10V | 3-10V |
| USB outputs | 3 (hub) | 7 (optional hub) | ❌ | 3 | 4 |
| Focuser motor control | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ dual | ✅ | ✅ |
| Dew heater channels | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Multiple sensors support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| ASCOM driver | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| INDI driver | (2025 Q4) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Suggested for | 🏡 Home | 🧭 Portable | 🏡 Home | 🏕️ Travel | 🏕️ Travel |
| Price range | € – €€ | € – €€ | € | €€€ | €€ – €€€ |
✨ What Else Do I Need?
Essential components:
- 🔭 Telescope – Any optics capable of generating a sky image, including photographic lenses.
- 📷 Camera – Dedicated cooled cameras (color or monochromatic with filters) or a DSLR camera.
- ⚙️ Mount – Can range from a simple astronomy tracker to a fully capable equatorial mount, optionally equipped with a guider.
- 🔋 Power Supply – 12V regulated supply capable of powering all setup components. Rechargeable batteries can also be used for field setups.
- 🔌 Cables – High-quality power cables (short and thick enough) and signal cables (USB, short and branded).
- ⚫ Focus Motor – Enables automatic or remote focusing. Includes 6-wire flat cable for connection to AstroLink. Available with various mounting brackets.
- 🖥️ Computer – While AstroLink 4 Bee and AstroLink 4 Pi have integrated computers, other AstroLink devices requires connection to the computer via USB cable to operate
Optional components:
- 🌡️ Temperature/Humidity/Dew Point Sensor – Monitors conditions and helps automate focuser temperature drift compensation and heating strip power.
- ☁️ Cloud Coverage Sensor – Measures sky transparency and can trigger the SafetyMonitor interface.
- 🌌 Sky Brightness Sensor – Measures sky brightness and can trigger the SafetyMonitor interface.
- 🛠️ Mounting Plate – Attaches the AstroLink device to Vixen or Losmandy dovetail mounts.
- 🔌 Additional USB Hub – Clamp-equipped hub with optional card reader or USB-C port.
- 🎮 Hand Controller – Allows manual control of focuser motor position.
✨ Installation & Software
🧩 Step 1: Mount the AstroLink
Use the original mounting plate or your own solution to place the device in the convenient location in your setup, so the cable can be placed in a simple and secure locations
🔌 Step 2: Connect cables
Make cable connections between the system components. Use good quality and as short as possible cables. Keep signal cables away from heating stripes cables. Periodically use dedicated cleaning agent to clean the cable connectors.
💻 Step 3: Install control panel software and ASCOM driver
Get the latest software from the download page and install it together with ASCOM driver. ASCOM Platform 7 is recommended. Keep the system and the aquisition software up to date and do not forget about backups.
🌙 Step 4: Configure your devices
Configure your favorite aqusition software to use AstroLink ASCOM drivers: Focuser, Observing Conditions, Switch, Safety Monitor. This way you can integrate the whole setup into a single automated device.
Download the latest panel software, drivers and manuals from the Software downloads page
✨ Start Your Smart Astronomy Journey
