Draco
Draco is a portable alt-azimuth system for long-exposure deep-sky imaging. Its 388mm-long, approximately 5.5kg body integrates a 90mm f/3.8 optical system, built-in autoguiding, physical field de-rotation, thermal control, dark-frame calibration, and onboard image processing.
During an exposure, the guider measures stellar drift and sends corrections to the tracking system. The main imaging module rotates around the optical axis to counter field rotation produced by alt-azimuth tracking. These functions enable repeatable single-frame exposures up to 300 seconds without polar alignment or an external equatorial mount, wedge, or guide scope.
The DWARFLAB app provides target selection, image acquisition, calibration, stacking, and processing on a phone or tablet. Its open software layer and built-in coding agent support user-written scripts. PhotonLink allows remote access to a Draco installed at another location, while multiple units can contribute independently captured data to images with longer total integration or wider coverage.