All Sky Camera
Also take a look at past years for interesting images and projects.I like to call my Images "Now & Laters". Observe Now and Share Later.
Images are made from a live stack of many images usually around 3 seconds for each frame. The stack itself is around 3 Minutes in duration.A dark frame is removed for each frame during the live stack.Minimal processing is performed during the live stack. No post processing is performed on the final image.These images can also be browsed in the object image page.Clicking on an image will open the full size image in another page or a GalleryCheck back often as I work on projects in the observatory
Mind`s eye observatory live Weather Camera
Mind`s Eye Observatory Live All Sky Camera
Day And Night
The launch of Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission on board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A in Florida 1:05 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 15 from the all sky camera at Minds Eye Observatory. Destination is the Moon. Note the sky and trees increased brightness even 60 miles from the pad. The first stage separation can be seen as well as the boost-back burn for the return to the cape. The camera was an zwoasi224mc with fisheye. 10 second exposures. It is usually used to monitor weather at the observatory.
Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp.mp41998OR204282020 - Copy.aviTypical Night of Operations
Typical Night of Operations
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Florida clouds and a Moon teasing me.
Better known as Sucker Holes!
Imaging asteroid 1998 OR2
Imaging asteroid 1998 OR2
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Time lapse
This night I was imaging asteroids.You can see a front moving in that I was racing. As it moved over the observatory you can see the scope move into the home position calling it a night.
1998OR204292020.avi20503a2020.aviFull Moon Maintenance Night
Full Moon Maintenance Night
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At 2.39 you will see my my nightly visit from the sheriff via helicopter. They have seemed to take an interest in me and usually do a circuit around the observatory about the same time each night! Somehow they haven't ruined an image. There was a full moon so I was doing some Maintenance Cone error adjustment and a polar alignment check up.
