All Sky camera, sample images and videos

Here are some image and video samples that are produced by our cameras, including description and camera type used. In order to watch videos, XVID codec shall be installed (harmless to your PC) it can be downloaded here. Click over image to get full resolution.

Monochrome camera (leading to black and white image) offers highest sensitivity. 60s exposure time and high resolution optic reveal all stars above magnitude 7. Image hereafter has been recorded with a very good night and a dark place free from light pollution.

List of link of users using this camera, real time images

List of camera users (sorry, because of low internet bandwidth in these places, direct link to real time images cannot be disclosed)

• Las campanas observatory (Chile)
• INAF (Italy)
• HAT south (Australia)
• Moscow University
• Observatoire des Makes (Reunion island / CNRS)
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Division (India)

The next image has been recorded at Las Campanas observatory (Chile), in the framework of HAT project. This camera has been running routinely with no failure for more than one year under Linux system. This is now the official allSky observatory camera.

The following image is from Pic du Midi observatory. This is a monochrome, fixed aperture to f1.4 and no 700nm IR-cut filter. This is the setup that offers maximum sensitivity, to the expense to optical quality (image resolution on image edges is less good as camera embedding IR cut filter).

All night video as AVI file can be seen here, some clouds at the beginning of the nigh are visible, then are fading away.

Here is the all night time lapse video file (AVI large file!) 50% illuminated Moon is up at the beginning of the time lapse and sets.

The next image is a color GIGE camera interface, installed at Pises observatory. Color camera is perfectly showing the impact of light pollution. Color camera is ideal for showing atmospheric events like polar aurora, blue jets, "sprites" or Elvets.

Color camera allows perfect imaging during day, with auto-iris embedded to the lens, Sun strong light does not prevent from recording images.

AllSky camera can capture very fast events like a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere, leaving a remnant of its path (see below).