All-Sky camera part of the Europen Network for fireball detection

The All-sky camera has now been in use since June 2021, and made during it’s operation almost 3 million pictures on a permanent basis day/night.

As from today it got the designation EN904, as part of the European Network for fireball detection.

Hans Betlem performed a calibration of the camera images, so it can be used for measurements in case fireballs are detected.

Overview of the calibration image (Hans Betlem)
Test caption of Canis Major on December 30th 2022 (Hans Betlem)

The Fujinon lens combined with the ASI183MC has a lot of aberration near the horizon.

The JPG converted FIT image of December 30th, 2022. A nice winter milky way is visible.

Mars 26 december 2022

Despite hard wind gusts, that pushed aside the Mars image in the small ROI, and clouds passing over completely blocking any image, with a seeing that was variable but never very good, the telescope caught a few Mars’s last night.

Meanwhile a nice winter sky was visible with sqm values above 20,50 and a hint of the winter mily way

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