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I would actually more expect this is a side effect of white balance being shifted. Notice how the color of white differs between the two scenes. When white point shifts, the scene colors can shift dramatically in hue and saturation. The amount and direction of shift depends on both the original...

Clear night allowed another M31 capture on the EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X. A couple satellites drift across the field. M110 is the smudge above the main galaxy

When I first moved here, the local news was going on about a drought. I looked around at the ferns and wondered “What drought?”

Love how she keeps chasing him down until he finally takes off

In stock configuration, the 12 DC jack does not output 12 volts when you connect ethernet to POE supply. Some of use modify the camera and bypass the blocking diode to convert that DC input into an output. Such a mod has even been used to power an external IR light, but obviously the...

It's a portrait oriented video, but my editing software only allows landscape. Hence, the time stamp is cropped off top of frame.

Was looking through old footage to see how our cameras have progressed over the years. Found this gem from 10 years ago taken by a Hikvision eyeball. Well.... it DID get to the front door.

Rainbows this evening without color adjustment in post processing. As a scenery camera, the EmpireTech Color-4KT is more real than real. Night scenes are way more than one can see by eye alone. The still is at 12:30 (after midnight) and lit only by moonlight. Love it as a scenery and sky camera.

You are going to pull down the camera to take care of this. Access is via the rear hatch of the sphere. Then you pull the camera module out the rear to access the window. Not safe or practical to do at altitude.

Good choice. Truthfully, I was a bit disappointed with going from the old 2MP to the PTZ4M-25X. The night imaging was bad enough that I had to add IR floods whereas previously I didn't need them. Just not sensitive enough on that 4MP on 1/2.8' resolution/sensor size combo.

It this a newly installed unit? Mine are almost always bumped out of position (moved manually) as I adjust the mounting. SOP has become, reboot post install to establish a good baseline position zero.

Here is what the vertical optical sensor and interruptor look like. When PTZ boots, the controller rotates until the interruptor blocks light across the optical sensor. That is how the PTZ board finds the motion limit. Horizontal direction has analogous optical sensor and interruptor. I...

The PTZ mechanism does not have an absolute position encoder. Instead the system does an initial calibration for horizontal and vertical “zero” when PTZ boots. From that point on position is tracked based on stepper motor counts. If anything knocks the camera position or if a motion is hindered...

Some progress on the new adapter shipment..... Package left the carrier facility. Salt Lake City Distribution Center, US This feels like forever.

Set to 250 msec shutter and gain 65 to capture this morning. Companion M110 is just visible as a small smudge above M31