Haiti All Sky Camera (HASC)

View of Port au Prince harbor from ESIH in Nazon.
HASC: Astronomy in Haiti using an All Sky Camera !

Partners:
- IAU/OAD , our primary funding program, and our OAD reports (funded both in 2016 and 2017 in TF1)
- UMD, in particular UMD Observatory
- GRAD MAP (2 students from ESIH participated in the 2017 and 2018 Winter Workshop)
- ESIH and Thess.online
- U Quisqueya
- Collège Catts Pressoir
- Institut d'Enseignement Supérieur TechnoSource
- UEH (l'Université d'Etat d'Haïti)
Hardware:
- Oculus All Sky Camera
Codes:
- pyASC , codes for the camera
- SLICA , codes for teaching python and astronomy
- A Raspberry Pi operated Wireless Allsky Camera
Photos:
- July 2018 (to come); visiting ESIH, Technosource (and others?) Inspecting tower for installing the All Sky Camera.
- October 2017 (to come); visiting ESIH and Technosource
- March 2017, HASC now running with a Raspberry Pi 3
- January 2017, HASC partners visiting Maryland
- March 2016 visit at ESIH (including rooftop observing using the all-sky)
- June 2015 visit in Les Cayes
- June 2015 MD All Sky Network Cameras arrived
Other interesting links:
- Dragonfly: at Dunlap and Yale
- Astrophotography with the Raspberry Pi Camera
- Raspberry Pi Skycam w/ NoIR V2 Camera and Light Pollution Filter
- Tiny Asteroid Discovers and disintegrates hours later over Southern Africa
- Allsky Camera Facebook Group - lots of DIY ideas.

All Sky picture taken in Haiti, with all sky camera and a Raspberry Pi computer interface.

This page was last modified on 08-Aug-2018 by teuben@astro.umd.edu.