[AZ-Observing] Yet another night-sky monitor

     Marc Buie of the Lowell staff has recently rigged a couple of 
Webcams in windows of our 1.1-m telescope.  One is in color and works
only during daylight.  The other is a Watec 903K that is able to record
stars down to about mag. 8 and is intended for us to be able to check
for thin cirrus.  After several weeks of testing and software development,
they are now up and running, accessible from:

http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/wxpix

The nighttime camera points northwest, and currently shows Cassiopeia
setting after dusk each night.  The flat glow low on the horizon (behind
the dome of the 1.8-m telescope) is the skyglow from Flagstaff.
     The link to "equipment used" contains technical details about the
cameras and also stuff about the software set-up.

\Brian
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