You can capture all sorts of interesting night time sky events with a camera, everything from planes, stars and maybe the odd shooting starThe aim of this tutorial is to setup the Raspberry PI (rPI) NoIR camera to take a photo every 12 seconds over 9 hours. The NoIR camera doesn’t have the Infra-red filter so is well suited to taking images of the sky at night.

You can use a normal rPI or the rPI Zero, both work equally well. You will need an external battery pack to power the PI. I have linked to one below. The advantage of the battery model I have is that I can run two cameras from the same battery and more importantly it will last for more than 9 hours.

This tutorial doesn’t go into the steps of setting up the rPI with raspbian as there are plenty of tutorials that explain how to do this already. It also assumes you have a headless rPI setup as all commands I have executed via SSH. There are some good tutorials on setting up a headless.

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