AstroPi

A DIY astronomy camera made with a raspberry pi 5 and the HQ Camera!

Overview

TODO

Demo

TODO

Features

• Control the camera remotely
• Live preview via a web browser widget
• Manual focus, Gain, and exposure control
• Monitor the temperature of the camera

Materials

• Raspberry Pi 5
• HQ Camera
• Raspberry Pi 5 case (with fan slot)
• An extra fan (for cooling the camera)
• A laptop or desktop computer
• Loooooong Ethernet cable

Build your own AstroPi

TODO (+ link to site, create the actual site pages)

Usage

TODO

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines before contributing.

TODO

NON-CODE

• Write the installation instructions
• Write the usage instructions
• Write the contributing guidelines
• Create a demo video
• Create some sample images

CODE

• Developer mode: for development on non-pi devices (just solid black frames).
• Create a startup script for the raspberry pi which runs git pull and starts the server
• Display integration
• Major UI overhaul
• Let the user control ALL settings, not just exposure time and gain.
• ISO -> Gain
• Non-persistent preview, just use the mjpg stream thing
• For capture previews, capture both jpg and dng, stream to mjpg, save both dng (the actual data) and jpg (for the gallery)
• Create an index of captured files, allow the user to see them sequentially ("gallery" page?)
• Allow the user to transfer the captured files to a USB device instead of zipping and downloading
• Internal storage management: allow the user to delete captures from older sessions
• "Session" paradigm for separating data from different sessions
• Video capture support