News Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Used for Out of This World Astrophotography

[Admin]

For this Raspberry Pi project, all you need is a little hardware, patience and an unexplored chunk of the sky.

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[Rob Pettengill]

Here’s a link to a first light high quality image of the moon taken with the HQ cam and the William Optics RedCat 250/51 mm telescope: Raspberry Pi HQ camera Moon image.

 

[bit_user]

Here’s a link to a first light high quality image of the moon taken with the HQ cam and the William Optics RedCat 250/51 mm telescope: Raspberry Pi HQ camera Moon image.

Cool. Thanks for sharing!

BTW, how does this compare in terms of both cost & quality with other amateur asto-photography setups?

 

[Rob Pettengill]

Cool. Thanks for sharing!

BTW, how does this compare in terms of both cost & quality with other amateur asto-photography setups?

Remains to be seen. It’s value will be in the Raspberry Pi enabling its integration with other astro software and HW without needing a laptop. Not a big difference in cost I think. The HQ module has the potential for some deep sky images while the earlier camera modules were limited to solar system images. Pixel size and IR cutoff on the sensor will result in less quality than real astro cameras. I hope to be able to run RPi HQ cam wirelessly from my iPad and avoid the need for a laptop. I did this with the original cam module years ago but the slowness and latency of the link made it hard to frame and focus images. Hope for better with the Pi 4.