Racing Meldert shields lights

Since last summer, the local football club changed over to LED, sponsored by the community.

However the lights were unshielded. Not acceptable for an astro observatory that depends on dark skies….!

So I asked for shielding.

And since a little while the shields are installed!

It´s not a miracle solution, but it helps. I´ll still have to wait untill they switch off for any serieus imaging.

For now, lights are on only three evenings till 22hrs.

New TESS photometer online: Stars551

The old photometer Stars209 unfortunately died, after the cover window was blown off by the wind. Meanwhile a new meter was obtained Stars 551.

Link to the data

I’m working to get the data nicely represented.

The cover window of the photocell disappeared
Rain damaged the photocell, the filter came loose

The data from Stars209 were recorded from February 2019 till December 2020, almost non-stop. The CSV download file can be found here:

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