Monday, July 31, 2023

Cloud Study

Another project that I'm doing to try to resurrect is my cloud observation project.  The first thing to do was to see if I still had the notes I'd taken over a year ago about configuring the all-sky cameras (that are being used for meteor detection and other astronomical stuff at night) to view the sky during the day and in color.

Luckily, it's all still there.  In fact there were python scripts to set the camera parameters.  I then added a little thing to be able to save the images to disk (which is ok for now).

Anyhow, here's the view from USL00Y -- which is looking towards the northeast.  The image is upside-down since the camera is rotated 180 degrees in it's mount (I don't care what the orientation is):


So now I'll sit back and think about what to do with this.

Here's another image, same camera, taken a few hours after the previous image was taken:


gotta work on colors a little -- this image looks way too red.  As I recall, there's a setting for this.

Out of focus raindrops from USL00Y in 'light' mode:





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