CONCAM - ING's All-Sky Camera

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Dec 2003

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The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 7, p. 24-25.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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All-Sky Camera, Sky Monitoring

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It has been a long-standing wish at the observatory to have a night-time all-sky cloud monitor. A cloud monitor, in the first place, allows astronomers in the control room to assess the actual situation of the night sky without the need of having to rush out for a visual check. The latter usually requires rushing up and down stairs, standing in the cold outside, and waiting for the eyes to get adapted to the dark, and even then one would only have a partial snapshot of the situation in the sky. The ideal cloud monitor works at infrared wavelengths where the contrast between the cloudless night sky and the relatively warm clouds is high. However, a suitable infrared camera is rather complex and expensive to build, and as the equipment has to be located outside, there is a significant maintenance overhead as well. To avoid these problems we have been looking for an alternative for some time and came across CONCAM.

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