Random nerdy stuff that makes the gears turn.
I’ve been using Thomas Jacquin’s AllSky software for a few years now, and a few revisions. Currently they’re on v8.3, and its working quite well –...
October 3rd at 5:07am an object entered the atmosphere and broke apart, trailing from horizon to horizon over a 75+ second span. 4 frames from this...
Here’s a quick group of lines that test different parts of the EndOfNight.sh. Copy the code below, save it into a .sh file of any name....
The meteor shower was very nice. I’m still learning the camera, and playing with a new star tracker – The Move Shoot Move. The learning curve...
This little project was undertaken out of frustration of having to remove the dome & re-seal it in order to focus; that and curiosity. Lucky for...
Little fireball from last night. You can also see the milky-way cloud arching up left to right. The summer milky-way is starting to show back up,...
Went camping recently and took the opportunity to test out a secondary AllSky camera, specifically to travel with so I don’t have to pull the main...
Decent fireball low on the horizon to the South-West, about the 1:30’ish region. I didn’t witness it personally, but found it when looking over the American...
I was lucky enough to see this one visually from about 18 miles South-East of home, just outside of town heading back home from a day...
I’m not a programmer – but let’s get this DHT22 up and running through a Raspberry Pi 3 and Python scripting.
