AllSky Details

The purpose of these systems is to carry out All or Full Sky surveillance of the night or day sky, and in a continuous fashion. It is possible to assess, in real time, the night sky quality, and to record fast phenomena (meteors and fireballs) or slower (satellites, rockets, noctilucent clouds, zodiacal light, aurora, airglow...).

Instrument 1

Allsky camera - Alcor System OMEA 3C

Thanks to its high sensitivity, this system can record a very good image quality of the night sky, while producing images of stars that will not be trailed by natural Earth rotation, no star tracking is required. File describing how our ALL-SKY camera can be used for (application fields) OMEA 3x/6x Camera (right side as square shape is temperature and moisture sensor) OMEA water tight connectors: USB, POWER and External SENSOR.

Specification

  • Field of view: 180° x 180°
  • Wavelength range : 350 to 750 nm (IR cut filter)
  • Camera resolution: 3100 x 2100 at 2.4 µm pixel size (Rolling shutter)
  • ADC resolution: 14 bits
  • Video stream: 6.5 fps USB 2.0 - 30 fps USB 3.0
  • Exposure time: From 32µs to one hour exposure (All-Sky mode, typically 20s to 75s)
  • Gain: Variable, Logarithmic mode from 30x to 10000x

AllSky current image

Current AllSky image at AOB