{"id":9644,"date":"2021-10-09T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2021-10-09T09:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T13:09:27","slug":"allsky1pi-camera-system-software-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/allsky1pi-camera-system-software-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Allsky1pi camera system software upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335-1023x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009053335.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028-1023x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-20211009054028.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe allskypi camera upgrade from 0.6 to 0.8 took about 10 minutes and the new software is *amazeballs*<\/p>\n<p>A new web GUI interface for settings which has more info about the settings, the much better dark frames at temps from 23-30C.  Unfortunately, I covered the dome with a dark hoodie jacket and that actually insulated enough and blocked the vents enough that the sensor temp actually rose through the night instead of dropping.<\/p>\n<p>Will have to do it again with a smaller black cover that does not cover vents.  even so the resulting dark frame at the actual temperature is doing a much better job at removing hot pixels than before.<\/p>\n<p>I will now look at adding outdoor temp and humidity as well to each image.<br \/>\nTwo quick sample shots from this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The first at 05:33:06, before dark frames, 60sec exposure, hot pixels EVERYWHERE<\/p>\n<p>The second, at 05:40:27, after using a dark frame taken at 29C, a much better image.<\/p>\n<p>Orion is just on the bottom, Capella near the centre.  Cassiopeia near the upper right.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t tell if that is M31 Andromeda Galaxy or not.. there was a lot of cloud starting to come up from the south.<\/p>\n<p>Regulus and Leo are over to the left side.   The Big Dipper\/Plough upper left.<\/p>\n<p>Great first light results!<\/p>\n<p>The woman on the presentation,  Linda Thomas-Fowler, spent about $650USD on the project, mainly for buying a higher end ASI camera, and a new raspberry pi 4, etc.  If you had spare bits lying about it would be more on the order of $100-200Can<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021.10.03 | Linda Thomas-Fowler: Building an All-Sky Camera\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oc7W53umCTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>software project available here: https:\/\/github.com\/thomasjacquin\/allsky <\/p>\n<p>Will be trying to get more dark frames tonight once the sensor temp goes below what we already have&#8230; 23C <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The allskypi camera upgrade from 0.6 to 0.8 took about 10 minutes and the new software is *amazeballs* A new web GUI interface for settings which has more info about the settings, the much better dark frames at temps from 23-30C. Unfortunately, I covered the dome with a dark hoodie jacket and that actually insulated [&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-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","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=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9648,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}