HQ Pi Cam Notes
I use a HQ Pi Cam for my Allsky setup. One mod I did was to remove the red filter "infrared". This was a simple to do. Note: this will change the colors of trees to look redish and if you have any infrared camers in view the camrea will pick up the infrared. I had to make a block at the dome as I have 2 camera's in view. After the removal of the filter I can just make out the Milky Way. I am in Bortel 7 skys. Click on the photo's for the full size image.
My Current settings in Allsky Adjust the Red Balance and Blue balance. Note my settings should get you close. You can get a blue sky.
With the filter in
With filter out
Daytime with red filter removed
Turns out that Lightning has alot of infered so strikes are not going to show up.
My settings on the WEB site /allsky/virtualsky.json
"I see that the overlay on your web site is displaying some Messier objects positions. How did you achieve that ?"
Look in the /allsky/virtualsky/virtualsky.js for a list of options you can change just add them to the /allsky/virtualsky.json file. I also listed the options below.
BEFORE you make any changes to the virtualsky.json file BACK IT UP.
| My /allsky/virtualsky.json contents |
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| "id":"starmap", |
| "projection":"fisheye", |
| "width": 900, |
| "height": 900, |
| "constellations": true, |
| "mouse": false, |
| "gridlines_eq": true, |
| "keyboard": false, |
| "showdate": true, |
| "showposition": false, |
| "showorbits": true, |
| "showgalaxy": true, |
| "constellationlabels": true, |
| "sky_gradient": true, |
| "gradient": false, |
| "transparent": false, |
| "objects": "M42;M45;M31;M51;M81" |
| The Default Options |
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| id ('starmap') - The ID for the HTML element where you want the sky inserted |
| projection ('polar') - The projection type as 'polar', 'stereo', 'lambert', 'equirectangular', or 'ortho' |
| width (500) - Set the width of the sky unless you've set the width of the element |
| Description of Item 4 |
| height (250) - Set the height of the sky unless you've set the height of the element |
| planets - either an object containing an array of planets or a JSON file |
| magnitude (5) - the magnitude limit of displayed stars |
| longitude (53.0) - the longitude of the observer |
| clock (now) - a Javascript Date() object with the starting date/time |
| background ('rgba(0,0,0,0)') - the background colour |
| transparent (false) - make the sky background transparent |
| az (180) - an azimuthal offset with 0 = north and 90 = east color ('rgb(255,255,255)') - the text colour |
| dec (-90 < x < 90) - the Declination for the centre of the view in gnomic projection/td> |
| negative (false) - invert the default colours i.e. to black on white |
| ecliptic (false) - show the Ecliptic line |
| meridian (false) - show the Meridian line |
| gradient (true) - reduce the brightness of stars near the horizon |
| cardinalpoints (true) - show/hide the N/E/S/W labels |
| constellations (false) - show/hide the constellation lines |
| constellationlabels (false) - show/hide the constellation labels |
| constellationboundaries (false) - show/hide the constellation boundaries (IAU) |
| showstars (true) - show/hide the stars |
| showstarlabels (false) - show/hide the star labels for brightest stars |
| showplanets (true) - show/hide the planets |
| showplanetlabels (true) - show/hide the planet labels |
| showorbits (false) - show/hide the orbits of the planets |
| showgalaxy (false) - show/hide an outline of the plane of the Milky Way |
| showdate (true) - show/hide the date and time |
| showposition (true) - show/hide the latitude/longitude |
| ground (false) - show/hide the local ground (for full sky projections |
| keyboard (true) - allow keyboard controls |
| mouse (true) - allow mouse controls |
| gridlines_az (false) - show/hide the azimuth/elevation grid lines |
| gridlines_eq (false) - show/hide the RA/Dec grid lines |
| gridlines_gal (false) - show/hide the Galactic Coordinate grid lines |
| gridstep (30) - the size of the grid step when showing grid lines |
| live (false) - update the display in real time |
| fontsize - set the font size in pixels if you want to over-ride the auto sizing |
| fontfamily - set the font family using a CSS style font-family string otherwise it inherits from the container element |
| objects - a semi-colon-separated string of recognized object names to display e.g. "M1;M42;Horsehead Nebula" (requires internet connection) |