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Hello! I'm afraid this will be yet another DIY all sky camera build! Hopefully interesting though... While developing my all sky software (shameless plug, see signature) one of the biggest problems is that I don't actually have a permanent all sky camera setup myself. I live in the middle of a big city with massive light pollution where the summer temperatures are just creeping up to 40C+, not ideal... So for a while I have been thinking about setting up a remote all sky camera to help with the testing of the AllSkEye app. Initially the idea was to mount it at a relatives house but then once I looked into what would be required to make it fully remote controllable I was thinking that if I go to all that trouble, I might as well look for a location with great weather and dark skies. After a few inquiries I got a really great response from Jose at the E-Eye remote hosting facility in Spain. This was fantastic news because not only will the camera have nice weather and dark skies but the facility also has fibre broadband which is almost a must for what I have in mind further down the road (I am also planning to transfer some image data to cloud storage for archiving and further processing and that could potentially be a lot of data). So this is where it is going to go (all being well and my 3D printer not packing up! I'll try to follow my progress here, maybe it will be helpful for someone. The basic idea is pretty simple: Setup a completely autonomous and remotely controllable all sky camera Sounds easy enough... Well, let me tell you, it is not! To anyone having setup your own remotely hosted scope setup, my hat off to you, it's not an easy task! Initially I split this project into two parts: The camera, lens, housing and everything that goes with it The control box that will control the above Unfortunately I don't have time just now to go into any details but will hopefully be able to do so soon. I just though if I don't start this thread soon I never will . The state of play at the moment is that the control box is pretty complete and the camera housing is nearing completion (3D printer is very busy, not a fast manufacturing process unfortunately). Mike Here are a few pictures of what it looks like at the moment:
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Having completed my ASC Mk 5 night sky camera I'm now thinking about a colour camera for daytime use. Colour will allow seeing the difference between clear blue sky and grey cloud. To start with, the field is wide open for the camera and lens. Ideas for camera :- ZWO ASI185MC Raspberry Pi Camera Webcam CCTV Camera Ideas for lens - must be a fish-eye lens to give sufficient FOV :- 2.5mm f1.2 lens supplied with ASI185MC Fujinon Zoom Lens - 1.4mm to 3.1mm at f 1.4 Other CCTV lens RPi combined camera and lens
