I am now saving a picture from the camera every minute. I’ve written some PHP and JQuery to create a timelapse of the images. They will update throughout the night and, with any luck, by the morning I’ll have a lovely timelapse of the breaking dawn. Unless I run out of disk space (which shouldn’t crash the Pi as I’m checking to make sure that I don’t take any more photos if I’ve used 95% of the space available).
Oh, the filename is shown below the timelapse so you can see what time the photo was taken.
This timelapse is updated automatically by (and is hosted on) the Raspberry Pi itself!
Interesting things start to happen after 5am (0500)
Unfortunately, I havent been able to find a reliable way to pre-load the images. Anyone know how to do it with jQuery? I’ve tried loads of things!
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I’m wondering how well the camera can do taking a photo of the night sky, and then passing it to http://astrometry.net
Doug, you ask a very good question about taking pics of the night sky. It’s the very reason I got the camera 🙂
The next time we have a clear night, I’m going to see what it can do. I’m also going to experiment with adding a 50x eyepiece to it and pointing it at the moon.
I’d not heard of astrometry.net, but now that I have I’ll roll that into the project – I’ll also see about compiling the software on the Pi and having it do the hard work.
Thanks for commenting – very much appreciated 🙂
Good demo of the camera (although you have to wait through a rather long dark night first 🙂 If you get many readers looking at this page, the Pi will probably wilt under the load. If you have time, might consider assembling all the stills into a simple MP4 file that people could download and view (and fast-forward through) more easily.
I’d _love_ to do what you suggest. In fact, I’ve tried it several times but yet to find a solution to make it work. With ffmpeg/avconv the Pi runs out of memory. Windows apps just crash with the number of images. 🙁
The Pi survived the initial surge, which I’m pleased about 🙂