@nwchris 

Same here, we're near the border with Scotland so 55 degrees north, it doesn't get fully dark at night, just goes like twilight between about 11.30pm and 2.30am. I have been manually adjusting the ContaCam/task scheduler to turn on and off with the seasons changing, currently it is on from 11.45 - 03:00. I do miss the dark nights in mid summer but we do get to see some noctilucent clouds so that's a consolation ! 

Loving that dragonfly btw !

Cheers

G

  @KiwiDave I'm just new to this game, been using the C325WB for Aurora capture and it's such a great bit of kit. Have a full 12 hour in 12 minutes time lapse of the mega aurora show here in the UK on 10-10-24

I'm starting to look at monitoring for meteors - can anyone give a laymen's guide to help

  @Aussie_Pete Hi Pete, Getting meteors is a bit trickier than aurora due to them being so quick and sporadic. To do this more easily Kiwi Dave has found a cheap program called Contacam. We haven't written a manual (yet), but by skimming through the previous posts you should be able to figure it out. Please post any questions if you get hung up. One tip i can give you is that if you have really dark skies the C325WB kind of tries too hard and you get a "noisey" view. I found it can be reduced a bit by going into the camera software control and turning the lights beside the lens to on, then taping up the lights with electrical tape. It would be nice if TP-Link gave us a video gain control, maybe they will someday.

Here's a recent youtube of three meteors that I posted on youtube:

https://youtu.be/RTGaUMj9gvU?si=cp7K7k_3WRA8HthY

-Chris

  @Aussie_Pete By the way, beautiful Aurora pic!!!

-Chris

  @nwchris ok, will have a read and see if it's a project I fancy taking on. 

The C325WS is an amazing camera. Ive started a blog of how I use my camera as a Sky Cam. This forum won't let me post link's but if you Google pghintsandtips you should find it

  @Aussie_Pete  thanks to this thread I set up a North facing camera on the eaves of my house in Sweden- I travel all the time and frustrated to

miss the lights. This is the first pic I got days after installing when the skies cleared. Also watched a live meteor  and caught on video. Sensitivity is enough to show Molly Way and M31 on standard image. Camera is 325WB.

  @CLBrooker-53 it's such a great camera for the money. I've taken some amazing videos - even one 12 hour time lapse (compressed to 12 minutes) of the big aurora in October ( I can't post a link because of the group's rules but if you look on YouTube for Peter Gammage you'll find it)