NightWatcher2
Last year’s NightWatcher was a sneaky little C daemon that read a Sky Quality Meter (Unihedron SQM-LE) and wrote the numbers to a file. It worked, which, around here, is exactly the sort of...
The semi-numerical ramblings of a reluctant Tellurian sojourner...
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by Dave · Published 21 July 2026 · Last modified 22 July 2026
Last year’s NightWatcher was a sneaky little C daemon that read a Sky Quality Meter (Unihedron SQM-LE) and wrote the numbers to a file. It worked, which, around here, is exactly the sort of...
Technology / Computer / Linux / Astronomy / Networking
by Dave · Published 21 August 2025 · Last modified 19 July 2026
NightWatcher2 has been released! NightWatcher NightWatcher is a modular system for automated sky quality monitoring, site configuration management, and data logging/analysis. It is designed for observatories and research sites using the Unihedron SQM-LE sky...
Just as they are designed to do, the feet sacrificed themselves for the preservation of the collective when the noob pilot chopped the throttle in a panic – why haven’t I gotten the LIDAR...
Version 3 is airborne! …version 2 will always be in our hearts, and never spoken of again… (queue somber oboe music) A stable morning loiter test:
This Pi can fly! I’m planning a detailed article on the construction of this fabulous flugzoig, but in the meantime, here’s a quick summary: It’s a Pi2 running ArduPilot under the Navio real-time kernel, with...
Apparently, the vino-server binary included in Ubuntu release 14 requires TLS encryption, by default. This is visible in the logs files, or if you start vino-server from the command line: [time stamp] Advertising security...
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