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Monday, 19 August 2024

AllSky: taking pictures of the night sky

I'd heard that a meteor shower was on its way

so I rushed around and built a camera system.

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Labels: AllSky, astronomy, bash, exif, exposure, hot pixel, ISO, meteor, Milky Way, Module 3, Perseids, photography, PiCamera, Polaris, PowerBank, Raspberry Pi, script, whoBIRD

Friday, 2 August 2024

Bee Box: the leaf cutters have arrived!

It was quite a surprise!

We came back after a long weekend to find 2 chambers occupied.

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