All Sky Camera

[Peter Ward]

My Obs uses a Boltwood cloud sensor, which is very good, but sometimes gets the reading wrong (clear/cloudy) particularly on nights with high humidity.

I've been looking at all sky cameras for a while, but for various reasons didn't like what was available, hence decided to make my own. Results on the link below...

the link is here

P.S. You'll probably need a Quicktime plugin to view the animations

[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

Looks good Peter,I couldn't help noticing the clouds and the planes.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Nice work Peter! I've been thinking about converting my old ToUCam into an all-sky cam for a while now. Still have to get around to actually doing it though... Thanks for the inspiration!

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Nice work Peter! I've been thinking about converting my old ToUCam into an all-sky cam for a while now. Still have to get around to actually doing it though... Thanks for the inspiration!

No worries Rolf.... my old ToUcam was the first one I tried...didn't work very well, plus I could not find a driver that would work with my Win7 64 bit OS....

[trent_julie]

Hi Peter,
I couldn't resist. I gave my software a shot at it. I hope you don't mind.

Trent

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by trent_julie

Hi Peter,
I couldn't resist. I gave my software a shot at it. I hope you don't mind.

Trent

No problemo. You coded it? Very cool !

Stage 2 of my little project will be to mount the camera under an acrylic optical dome and weather-proof housing.

[trent_julie]

Hi Peter,
Yes my coding, its a long term project that has been lurking around. Free to download and use when your ready.

Trent

[jossupp]

peter

can yoou tel us where do you buy the len

and what is his catarteristic exactly

maybe we ca n find it in canada or us

also my project is to put x3 allsky cam whit medium 90 to 100 degre and add the 3 picture like stacking

maybe made a software able to do that after

jack 47'n 71'W