My friend Jani made a program to capture night sky events with cheap Raspberry
So i build my first All Sky camera using Raspberry
My goal was to build fully automated high quality night sky / meteorite camera with temperature control inside dome.
After some days of testing with one Raspberry
Temperature is monitored inside dome and if weather gets cold relays turn heat resistors on. This is done with python script that runs on Raspberry
Both Raspberry
Images are saved to ~/meteotuxpi/images/ and after images are ready at the morning they are moved to NAS storage with wlan+sftp for later processing etc.
Meteotux
You can for example take one image in every 10 minutes, that one image then contains every single frame (from 0s to 10min) from the camera and program stacks them together in one image. And keep taking those whole night without losing any frames.Max duration of one image stack is 1 hour.
Here's one cropped 10 minute stack example taken with Raspberry
Here's some meteorite images ive got so far
I've made some time lapse videos from stacked images too. You can check them from my youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFWiNe ... affH1Mv1SA
I'm really happy with results so far and images can be compared even commercial All Sky cameras that can cost 10000$ and they cant do image stacking and lose frames
My setup above cost around 250$
Cheapest and smallest "travel model" build below cost 30$ that contains Raspberry
You can find Meteotux
Cheers!