{"id":8844,"date":"2020-01-12T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:44:06","slug":"allskypi-pathfinder-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/allskypi-pathfinder-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Allskypi pathfinder project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20191225_080705_Pixel3a_1T333s_F1.8_f4.4mm_ISO77.jpg-IMG_20191225_080705.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20191225_080705_Pixel3a_1T333s_F1.8_f4.4mm_ISO77.jpg-IMG_20191225_080705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8846\" \/><\/a>Our v2 allsky camera was an SBIG ST237A camera and was operational from 2006Dec-2018July.  Ever since then we have been toying around with building another system out of existing spare parts and instead of a desktop, laptop or netbook data logging computer, a Raspberry Pi instead.<br \/>\nThis pathfinder project was essentially an R&#038;D project to get an operational camera system up and running, write it up and then see if others would like to go ahead and build some as well.<br \/>\nLuckily someone else thought of this first and posted the imeptus for us to follow at: https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Wireless-All-Sky-Camera\/<br \/>\nThis project uses a ZWO ASI120MC or equivalent camera, with included wide angle lens, housing and raspberry pi code.<br \/>\nThe SCGO system has been mounted and operational since 2019 Dec 03 and work continues on commissioning it.  This includes developing a dome heating system as it often condenses and or frosts up and accumulated snow does not normally melt off; programming to create archives, aiming of the housing to include more northern horizon for aurora capture; and more.<br \/>\nTotal cost is expected to be under $300Can with most of that being the camera.<br \/>\nTo date the system has been very robust with the raspberry pi having an uptime of 12 days since last restart.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20191212_062037_Pixel3a_1T24s_F1.8_f4.4mm_ISO225.jpg-IMG_20191212_062036.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20191212_062037_Pixel3a_1T24s_F1.8_f4.4mm_ISO225.jpg-IMG_20191212_062036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8847\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our v2 allsky camera was an SBIG ST237A camera and was operational from 2006Dec-2018July. Ever since then we have been toying around with building another system out of existing spare parts and instead of a desktop, laptop or netbook data logging computer, a Raspberry Pi instead. This pathfinder project was essentially an R&#038;D project to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}