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The gear is installed.
Now make it actually perform.

I take remote imaging systems from โ€œit powers onโ€ to repeatable, reliable data โ€” night after night.

Hardware, NINA, guiding, focus, automation, safety, recovery โ€” I work the whole chain because the weakest link still owns the night.

NINA workflowsRemote observatoriesSystem integrationPerformance tuning
WHY THIS EXISTS

A system that works eight nights out of ten is still an expensive way to lose clear weather.

Remote operation raises the bar. What is only annoying at home can kill an entire run when you are hundreds of miles away. I dial systems in for that reality.

SERVICES
01

Complete system setup

From โ€œit powers onโ€ to a fully configured imaging system. Mount, camera, focuser, filter wheel, drivers, plate solving, guiding, and baseline validation.

02

NINA & automation

Sequences built around your equipment and your site โ€” not generic templates. Startup, shutdown, safety, recovery, and the logic that keeps the system running when you are not there.

03

Troubleshooting & tuning

I work from the evidence: logs, guiding graphs, star shapes, focus runs, and actual behavior. Find the real limit, fix it, and prove the result.

04

Remote observatory readiness

Power, remote access, weather handling, parking, recovery, and the small things that decide whether a remote system survives the night or dies at 2 a.m.

EVERY ENGAGEMENT INCLUDES

Direct work with me

Clear scope and quote before anything starts

Testing on the actual equipment, not assumptions

Training and a clean handoff so you understand what changed and why

THE OUTER ASTRO PROCESS

How we work.

01

You tell me what you have and what it needs to do.

02

I review the system and send a clear scope + quote.

03

I configure or rebuild the parts we agreed on.

04

We test real behavior, not just settings screens.

05

I walk you through everything until it is yours.

Juan Lopez, founder of Outer Astro, beneath a star-filled sky
MEET JUAN

10,000+ hours under dark skies. Most of them earned the hard way.

Iโ€™ve spent more than ten thousand hours chasing photons, building and running observatories, and figuring out why a system that โ€œworksโ€ still wastes clear nights. The good nights, the frustrating ones, the ones where something small fails at 2 a.m. and you lose the rest of the session โ€” Iโ€™ve lived all of it.

Iโ€™m not a vendor who boxes up gear and wishes you luck. Iโ€™m the guy who has spent years making the same equipment you own actually behave when youโ€™re not standing next to it. Optics, mechanics, electronics, drivers, NINA, guiding, focus, power, recovery โ€” they all talk to each other. I work the whole chain because the weakest link still owns the night.

Outer Astro exists for one reason: so you donโ€™t have to burn the same years and the same clear nights learning the same lessons the expensive way. I work directly with you, explain what the system is actually doing, and keep refining it until the whole thing performs together โ€” not just on a good night, but reliably.

โ€œI treat your equipment the same way I treat my own. My goal is to get it tuned so that it performs the best it possibly can, so you wake up to clean, solid data morning after morning.โ€
REQUEST A CONSULTATION

Tell me about your system.

What equipment do you have, what do you want it to do, and what is getting in the way?

I review every request personally.

customersupport@outerastro.com

Juan reviews every request personally. We will talk through the work with you before providing a quote.