Well, it is finally up! The allsky camera is in position and live, feeding images and video to this website. It doesn’t have a full 180-degree field of view, but it also doesn’t have black triangles in the corners with nothing in them. That does mean that the South Celestial Pole is pretty close to the bottom of the frame, but a wider lens is an upgrade for another day now. Probably the only thing I am a bit bugged by is the street light out the front of our place – which is not in the field of view – does shine onto the dome of the camera housing, which is almost unnoticeable when the dome is clean, but when the dome gets covered in dew, it washes out the view significantly. 🙁
I will be posting a YouTube video before long showing the construction of the allsky camera.
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