About the Camera

The camera is the OMEA 6M monochrome All Sky camera from Alcor System. It is located on the roof of the HH Wills Physics laboratory, University of Bristol, UK (N 51 ° 26', W 02° 35'). The camera is to be used to identify transient phenomena such as meteors and also to record the number of clear nights in Bristol. To see all the previous images visit the image archive.






Interesting Images





Camera Specs

Name: OMEA 6M
Sensor: Monochrome
Fisheye circle "Illuminated" pixels: 4.5 Million pixels
Detector resolution: 3096 x 2080 pixels
Field of view: 180° x 130°
Pixel Scale: 3.3 arcmin/pix
Daylight imaging: Yes
File formats used: FITS, gif, jpg, png
CCD Model: ZWO ASI178MM
Mono camera (no RGB)
Pixel Size is 2.400000 um
Camera has no mechanical shutter
Electrons per ADU is 0.916000
Extremely low read noise(2.2e -1.4e)
Analogue to Digital converter 14bit (full well 16384e)
Manufacturer website: https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asi178mm-mono
USB3 capable
Sensor: IMX178 with SONY STARVIS and Exmor R Technology



Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the Renee Bates Legacy for funding the purchase of this camera.

We would like to thank the Physics Workshop for making the excellent mount for this instrument.

Thanks are also due to Christian Sheer who was a summer student in 2018 and helped get the control software started and to Will Simmons a year later, who set up the first version of this website and started the astrometric calibration process.