Welcome to Spacescan
100,000kg That's the estimated amount of material hitting the earth each day from space and this figure does not include man-made debris re-entering earth's atmosphere from space missions.
This website documents one amateurs' attempt to capture on video:- fireballs, meteors, satellites and other night sky phenomena by using low light CCTV cameras and specialist software.
International Year of Astronomy 2009
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) is an exciting global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture. Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first glimpses through a telescope and the birth of modern astronomy, it gives people all over the world the chance to get involved in this fascinating science and experience the wonders of the night time sky. More...
The night sky camera is currently operational between 21:00 and 03:00 UTC
The weather camera is operational 24hrs a day.
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The Spacescan Blog
New Weather PC
The NSLU2 went offline and has had to be replaced with a 800MHz ITX PC.
Erm.. Mk1 better than Mk2??
It appears that the Mk1 camera could be better than Mk2. Although more light is gathered, with the narrower field of view, less is seen...
Weathercam Change
Swaped out the new weathercam (Samsung SDC-425) with a generic 1/3" cctv camera. The Samsung will be put to better use shortly!
New Weathercam Operational
Got the new weathercam (Samsung SDC-425) up and running. Uploads an image every 10 minutes 24hrs/day