If you have any astronomer friends you’ll soon discover that theirs is a world of specialist high-quality optical equipment far ahead of the everyday tinkerer, and for mere mortals the dream of those ...

ArduCam, a well-established company in the camera industry, has recently introduced three new Raspberry Pi camera kits in the form of the Hawkeye, Dark SE, and Clarity. Making them available to ...

The aurora borealis (and its southern equivalent, the aurora australis) is a fleeting and somewhat rare phenomenon that produces vivid curtains of color in the sky at extreme latitudes. It’s a common ...

SLAC scientist Stuart Marshall explains the mechanism of the pancake wrap, a device that’s part of the system designed to control the temperature of the camera and keep it cool. Photo by Ashwini ...

The night images obtained with an all-sky camera can provide spatial and time sampling, which can be used for measurement cloud coverage measurement and meteor monitoring. The astrometric calibration ...