Cool.... For moisture, you can try dry CuSO4. All you have to do is heat up copper sulfate crystal till it turns white and powder. Then put that powder into Your setup. Great absorbent.
Thanks for this! Came across this video while looking for info about using the 533 as an all-sky cam. Curious if you have any updates to this setup! I'm interested in using the Meike MK-6.5mm F2.0 M43 lens and wonder how much of the FOV gets clipped. Also would like your thoughts on the choice of MC vs MM. I'm leaning towards the MM for higher QE.
The 6.5mm lens will most likely crop some of the sky near the horizon. The Mike 3.5mm lens (and Laowa 4mm) are the only ones wide enough for the 533 to get the whole horizon. Totally worth it in my opinion! I do wish it was f2 but our light pollution is bad enough to where 45s exposures at f2.8 and slightly higher gain (190 i think) it does pretty decent. MM vs MC, its really up to you. One of the important factors for us was to be able to display the all-sky camera on our planetarium downstairs. That was the main reason why we needed these requirements: square sensor, high res, color image, and the entire horizon being visible. IMO, you would probably love having a faster, monochrome, and slightly-cropped version of this camera. Since you dont need some of the things we needed, you can weigh the options for yourself and make the best decision for you! If you DO end up going and getting all of these other choices, please let me know how it does! I am always interested in making my gear better.
@@ColeRees Thanks for the reply! I purchased the 6.5mm lens and will try it using an E-mount to M43 adapter on my Sony A7RIII first. From that I'll know the exact size of the image circle and can figure out just how it would frame on smaller sensors. Worst case it will be nice to have a little fisheye for my camera bag. I've also been looking at getting the ASI678MC (or the newer mono version of the sensor from QHY) and just using the included lens for that as a cheaper option.
How powerful a mini PC do you think you really need? I've thought about creating a budget All-Sky camera build but I was thinking of going with maybe a Raspberry Pi or maybe even an ESP32. How did you achieve focus on with your camera/lens?
I used a quad core J4125 Processor mini pc running windows. This was because I wanted to use software (AllSkEye) that is based only on windows at the moment. To achieve focus I set up the entire system including software and then focused using the display monitor in AllSkEye. I will go over all of that next week in my video coming out about the software.
I should have done a better job when I made this video… the all sky camera is indeed 180x180 but I must’ve cropped the footage to make it “fit better” on the screen. The actual footage from it looks fantastic and I need to post more of it
I like your website and your style of reporting and recording
Cool....
For moisture, you can try dry CuSO4. All you have to do is heat up copper sulfate crystal till it turns white and powder. Then put that powder into Your setup.
Great absorbent.
Great video. Learned a lot of new info. Love your set.
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Thanks for this! Came across this video while looking for info about using the 533 as an all-sky cam. Curious if you have any updates to this setup! I'm interested in using the Meike MK-6.5mm F2.0 M43 lens and wonder how much of the FOV gets clipped. Also would like your thoughts on the choice of MC vs MM. I'm leaning towards the MM for higher QE.
The 6.5mm lens will most likely crop some of the sky near the horizon. The Mike 3.5mm lens (and Laowa 4mm) are the only ones wide enough for the 533 to get the whole horizon. Totally worth it in my opinion! I do wish it was f2 but our light pollution is bad enough to where 45s exposures at f2.8 and slightly higher gain (190 i think) it does pretty decent. MM vs MC, its really up to you. One of the important factors for us was to be able to display the all-sky camera on our planetarium downstairs. That was the main reason why we needed these requirements: square sensor, high res, color image, and the entire horizon being visible.
IMO, you would probably love having a faster, monochrome, and slightly-cropped version of this camera. Since you dont need some of the things we needed, you can weigh the options for yourself and make the best decision for you! If you DO end up going and getting all of these other choices, please let me know how it does! I am always interested in making my gear better.
@@ColeRees Thanks for the reply! I purchased the 6.5mm lens and will try it using an E-mount to M43 adapter on my Sony A7RIII first. From that I'll know the exact size of the image circle and can figure out just how it would frame on smaller sensors. Worst case it will be nice to have a little fisheye for my camera bag.
I've also been looking at getting the ASI678MC (or the newer mono version of the sensor from QHY) and just using the included lens for that as a cheaper option.
How powerful a mini PC do you think you really need? I've thought about creating a budget All-Sky camera build but I was thinking of going with maybe a Raspberry Pi or maybe even an ESP32. How did you achieve focus on with your camera/lens?
I used a quad core J4125 Processor mini pc running windows. This was because I wanted to use software (AllSkEye) that is based only on windows at the moment. To achieve focus I set up the entire system including software and then focused using the display monitor in AllSkEye. I will go over all of that next week in my video coming out about the software.
Nice but why are your circles in the images at the end of this video cropped? I thought you had 180 degrees or more.
I should have done a better job when I made this video… the all sky camera is indeed 180x180 but I must’ve cropped the footage to make it “fit better” on the screen. The actual footage from it looks fantastic and I need to post more of it
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