SCGO Allsky1 Camera System

Welcome to Starlight Cascade Observatory Allsky1 Camera System!
Near Yarker, Ontario, Canada. (44.22.39 N 76.45.47 W 151M Elevation)
Page Created: 2003 September 03
Page Last Updated: 2025 October 10
SCGO Home * Allsky1 * Allsky2 * RadioJove * SuperSID * Weather

Version4: built 2025Sept15 -
current hardware ZWO ASI676MC camera (3552x3552) USB3 and a Windows 10 minicomputer ASI –150° 2.1mm Lens Adapter for use as an all-sky camera, 4" x 24" sonotube; 4" acrylic dome with flanges; variable voltage power supply 3-12vdc for the resistor heater; 10 watt 100 ohm resistor (gives upto 1.44 watts of heat at 12vdc, 0.36 at 6vdc )

See also our Allsky2 System from UWO running since 2012 June 08.

Relatively realtime data

If any of these images are empty, this generally means that the system was not active the night before or that image processing has gone wrong :) Up is approximately North, East is Left, West is Right and South is down.
Most recent image:
Most recent midnight V3 image: Most Recent overnight Video (updates daily, approx 10MB):
(Clear Sky Clock Forecast for Starlight Cascade)

http://clearoutside.com/forecast/44.37/-76.77

Latest Weather information from SCGO:
Rain/Temp/Wind

References

Try https://www.amsmeteors.org/
  • University of Calgary Auroral Imaging Group
  • University of Western Ontario Meteor Physics Group (UWO)
  • North York Astro Assoc (NYAA) Lorenz Observatory All Sky Camera [Oak Heights]
  • Cloudbait Observatory (Colorado USA) *
  • Moonglow (Missouri USA)
    Allsky1 System Log
  • 2025sept15 - after years of searching for smaller lens to capture allsky, we found a newer better camera suited for allsky work.. the ZWO ASI676MC. It had 3500+ pixels and so the Raspberry Pi could not longer handle the data.. So we switched over to a windows 10 minicomputer and installed AlLSkEye software and have been configuring it for a few weeks.
  • 2011Feb15 - changed processing scripts a bit to lighten the images as they had become too dark since migrating over to the laptop. Changed startccd time to 18:32 EST changed STOP time to 06:04EST
  • 2011Jan13 - another laptop (7 years old) installed with all software and allsky now up and running again.