Open Source Software

Software to run the AllSkyCamer needs to handle image capture and formatting, date/time stamping, location and weather data, presenting that image, building movies, building charts, etc.

That’s a lot. Fortunately, I’m not the first (and hopefully not the last) to look into this kind of set up.

https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky

 

AllSky seems to be the goto software for this type of observing. Lots of options and lots of thought.

Author: mwallis

Recently retired, Michael spent 30+ years in Silicon Valley as a developer and Software Reliability Engineer working with companies like Apple, Amazon, Sony, etc. He grew up in Canada, where he served as the VP and Observers Head for the London Centre of the Royal Canadian Astronomical Society during the early 1970's.