Detecting Clouds With Machine Learning
Automating my home observatory has been a lot of fun, and a lot of challenges as well! For new readers my home observatory is a 5×5 micro-observatory (i.e. no room…
INDI-Allsky Software Review
A New Allsky Camera Application By Gord Tulloch Over the last few years I have been using the Thomas Jaquin (TJ) allsky camera software with great success, as have several…
Observing Report Dec 20 2022
Time: 17:40- CDTTelescope: ES102mm on NEQ6Camera: ASI294MC w/ L-ENHANCESeeing: PoorTransparency: PoorTemp: -24C to -26CWeather: Clear sky Testing to see how observatory works in -25C weather. After dusting off the roof…
And it begins…
Well we avoided snow into November at least… hopefully after another week of cloudy skies we get some clear cold nights!
Electronics V1
For the last little while I’ve been working on software stuff a fair bit. The observatory controller SPAO-OBS is now fully configured using Astroberry Server, Indi-AllSky for the Allsky camera,…
Exterior complete!
The exterior of the new Micro-observatory is complete! Just need to finish off the electronics and mount the door and the observatory will be fully done, and the fine-tuning the…
First light for real this time!
First light tonight! Lots of things worked well, lots of things didn’t, and lots to do to get it back to the point I had it with the old observatory!…