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@@gregoryknight2928 Awesome! I love hearing that! What kind of issues? I’ve had my fair share so maybe I can help.

Thank you!

I personally doubt its an aircraft. I considered that, but I do see many planes and helicopters on my stream, and none have ever looked similar to that. They usually move a lot more per frame. Also, if it was an aircraft and we are seeing navigation lights, why wouldn't it have been visible prior to the meteorite? It seems a little odd that it would show up just a minute or so afterwards.

Thank you! Honestly, not really. I did a good bit of research prior to the first build, and I was able to use some parts that I had laying around. I kind of just winged it for the construction part for the first one. If anything I'd get some nichrome wire / pipe heating wire as a small spool rather than cannibalize a spare dew heater strap, though that has also worked great for me this whole time. I also should have bought a powered USB hub from the start of the first build. The small screened vents and better fan + heatsinks were a nice change too.

@@normanrevere Awesome. Thanks for the extra info. This project has been on my “to do” list for a while now. Maybe 2025 is the year. 🤞

Merci! Le logiciel est OBS. Il est gratuit.

@normanrevere 🤣je parlais su logiciel de la caméra pour capturer les vidéos du ciel 😊😉

@ OBS est le logiciel ! Je connecte ma caméra directement à OBS comme source vidéo. Il enregistre et diffuse en même temps.

Hahaha. Nothing hits quite like a dash of existential dread!

That's a good idea! I'll get started on something tomorrow.

It might! My main concern would just be optical abberations at the outer edges of the FOV. The curve of the dome helps with that. I haven't tried it though!

@normanrevere hmm 🤔 Thanks

This is the way I have mine set up. I use an internal CPU heatsink attached to an external one and its sealed air tight. I purged the housing with dry nitrogen gas and placed desiccant inside. Its been through a full summer and partial winter with no issues. For the dew heater I just use 2 polyimide strips stuck to the top of the plastic lid which is under the dome (not inside it.) I thinks it only like 3.5 watts in series. Its controlled by an allsky software module which uses weather data every 5 minutes. I have never had dew issues. And it still melts the snow off, although rather slowly when its in the single digits F. Ive never like the idea of outside air contacting electronics. I have seen what it does to electronics in my line of work. Things quickly oxidize and can short circuit components.

@@allenkonig8759 Thank you! The dew heater was built by cannibalizing a USB dew heater meant for camera lenses. I had it on hand so I used that, otherwise you could get some pipe heating wire or nichrome wire. Just something that gets warm basically. Then I put it in a 3D printed ring so I could attach it to the dome easier, but all you need is good contact with the dome so the heat can transfer through. Mine is always on but you could probably rig it up to only come on at night if you wanted.

Honestly, in my experience not really. I actually had a leak I didn't know about in the previous enclosure (silicone between the dome and enclosure was cracked in one spot) and there was a solid centimeter of water in there after a heavy storm. The only reason I noticed it was because of dew forming on the inside of the dome. None of the electronics or connections were submerged though. Obviously that wasn't ideal, but it turned out fine. Otherwise I'm not concerned with a little bit of moisture getting in there, I haven't had any problems with that over the ~16 months I've been running it!

@normanrevere Good to know! Because raspberries are not easy nor cheap to come by nowadays. I'm thinking of a similar setup, but using an OrangePi Zero 3, and adding air-to-air heat exchange to deal with the overheating without directly pulling air into the enclosure...

@@zeendaniels5809 Sorry for the late reply. If you are putting your Pi inside the enclosure, I would be much more careful with your ventilation and keeping moisture out, or completely sealing it and doing what you said with a heat exchanger. The only electronics inside of my enclosure are the USB hub and the camera. My mini-pc is inside my house connected via a 30ft powered USB cord.

@normanrevere Ah! That makes sense. Didn't notice that in your setup. And yeah, it's better that way.

Yeah it would. I added some to my previous enclosure but I didn't add any this time since I went so heavy on the ventilation. I still could though if needed down the line!

You could, but that might also block out a large portion of the sky. I also wanted to be able to access it easily so the top of the roof near my balcony seemed like my best option. The torch was stupid. I just used it because I had it close by when I realized the problem. The funny thing was I didn't even need those pieces anyway, those vents have been doing a great job at keeping the weather out so far. I had the original version of the cam put together some time in August of '23, but I didn't actually start using it to record constantly until November. Prior to that I was just streaming and working out some of the kinks. Prior to that i've had a desire to build something like this for years. I just never had a good place to set one up.

@normanrevere thanks for the reply. I meant keep the lense on the roof, but have the brains out of sun, rain, etc. I wonder what the maximum length the wires can be for the chip/lense? Same for dashcams. I'm assuming Tesla's have "remote" camera/lense/CCDs at each location instead of an entire board? I hope that makes sense.

@@grabasandwich Ah gotcha. That is essentially what i'm doing here. Its basically just a camera hooked up to a 30ft powered usb cord. My mini pc is inside my house. All the other gadgetry is just there to try and protect the camera. My cam is a ZWO 678mc. There isn't much more there than a chip + lens in a casing.

It does not, but that is easily something you could add!

Thank you! I use OBS to stream and record.

I did make the first year into a timelapse recently... ua-cam.com/video/Ki8jMwBaZ78/v-deo.html

Nothing too crazy to report, though if you look at my channel I did record something interesting recently. I'm sure there's more that I just haven't noticed yet.

Ah. Oops! Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/ZsXWOcwRYtg/v-deo.html

Thank you!

Yeah... I could have processed it better at the time. The thumbnail for the video shows how it looks when I processed it again. Unfortunately I can't change the picture you see in the video. Thanks for watching!