In today’s Astro Academy segment, we will be discussing Starlink satellites with my friend, sometimes collaborator, Dark Sky Advocate, Network Engineer, and Astro-photographer, Mike Lewinski. Mike a member of Crestone Colorado’s Dark Sky Committee, and has been a presenter at Crestone’s Dark Sky Festival, and he is a night sky photographer and Time-lapse creator […]
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“No Meteor Undetected” is the motto of the Global Meteor Network. Skylapser and the Cielito Azul Observatory are joining the Global Meteor Network to help with that vision. The goal of this project is to observe meteors, by a global network of cameras pointed at the night sky. Each camera is connected to a Raspberry […]
Read MoreThe May 26 pass of Space X’s Starlink satellite train was super spectacular especially through binoculars. It even sparked thousands of UFO reports. I thought I had missed capturing it on my all-sky camera until I realized that the fierce winds of late had rotated the camera 90 degrees. Once I figured that out , […]
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Skylapser’s time-lapse video of the eta Aquanids meteor shower was featured on the Mother Nature News site, on May 6, 2019. You can read the article here: Did you miss the Eta Aquarid meteor shower? Problem solved
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We finally got the replacement Hygrometer for the Cielito Azul Observatory’s weather station. The station had been giving an erroneous humidity reading, that also affected the dew point temperature reading. Thanks to Ed at Ambient weather for sending the part for our Ambient Weather ws-2902 weather station. The station’s data (with the now correct humidity […]
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