The Starwatch 4k Project is an automated process of shooting 4k images, composing them into a video and uploading them on the StarWatch 4k Channel on Youtube daily.
The target of the project is to leave a digital footprint of our night skies. It’s extremely interesting watching the phases of the moon and the passing of the seasons from one specific point of view.
In the future, images and videos could be analyzed and annotated by an LLM to provide context and observations.
The Pi Camera module 3 NoIR is capable of capturing colors in both the visible and some of the IR spectrum. While color balance can be adjusted, unless viewed in black and white, the resulting image will always have an off color tint.
At the end of the shooting sequence, the camera uploads all images to a local server and a Raspberry Pi 5 converts the images to video, uploads it to Youtube and backs up the video. Both the images sequences and the video is backed up locally.
The Pi and the camera module are stored in a custom 3d printed weather proofed case (until proven otherwise).
