All sky camera

[avandonk]

Here is a video showing the sky from the observatory with the 1.98mm lens. Diagonal FOV is about 180 degrees and south is down. I have put a piece of LPS filter in the GstarEX. The integration is 128 frames or 2.6 sec exposure at f/2.8. Scorpio is just above center and Crux is at near bottom right.
700k wmv
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~fmlee/skyvid.wmv

Bert

[rsbfoto]

Originally Posted by rsbfoto

Hi Ian,

Yesterday I made a new test as I wanted to see how the sky looks from my new observatory under construction.

Here you can take a look at it. Those are 571 jpg images 920x920 pixels and then made a wmv movie out of it. The sequence was acquired with Lucam recorder from 21:16 hours to 06:46 hours today August 10th.

~2.4MB http://rainerehlert.com/ObsReal14/co...10-Meteoro.wmv

and this is my new observatory

http://rainerehlert.com/ObsReal14/co...-Obser-01a.jpg

Hi,

Last weekend I was able to finally realize a necessary improvement so I can leave the camera setup even during the day and the Sun does not damage the camera and lens.

Here you can see it open position

http://rainerehlert.com/AS-CD/RS-AllSky-04.jpg

and here in closed position

http://rainerehlert.com/AS-CD/RS-AllSky-05.jpg

The shutter moves via a stepper motor and I use my Focuser program in order to setup the different positions over the year

http://rainerehlert.com/AS-CD/RS-AllSky-03.jpg

I am looking right now for an adequate enclosure and then the camera will be setup in this case with a wider dome.

Thanks for looking