First Raspberry Pi Camera Test
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W online, camera connected and first test image captured: the starting point for sky snapshots and future visual classification.
Read note →Project Journal
Observatory Journal
Notes, experiments and lessons learned while building Ivrea Observatory: telemetry, sensors, astronomy, monitoring and practical system design.
Historical Sky Snapshots
Designing a simple archive of periodic sky images to track conditions over time and connect visual data with sensor telemetry.
Read note →Sensor Health and Heartbeat Monitoring
Adding uptime, RSSI, heartbeat and sensor status checks to understand whether each observatory node is alive, stable and trustworthy.
Read note →Handling Noise and False Positives on AS3935
A practical note about disturbers, false positives, wiring distance, local interference and why lightning detection is not just plug and play.
Read note →Lightning Node Online
The AS3935 lightning detector becomes a dedicated ESP32 node with diagnostics, event classification and backend ingestion.
Read note →From Dashboard to Observatory
How a simple weather dashboard started becoming a real observatory: sensors, data, astronomy context, diagnostics and a clearer project identity.
Read note →Moon Phase and Observation Windows
Adding moon phase, daylight, astronomical darkness and observation windows to make the dashboard useful for real sky observation.
Read note →Adding Weather Telemetry from Netatmo
Using external weather data as a reliable baseline for temperature, humidity, pressure and observation-related environmental indicators.
Read note →Measuring Outdoor Light with BH1750
The BH1750 light sensor becomes one of the core signals of the observatory, helping distinguish daylight, darkness and changing sky conditions.
Read note →First ESP32 Light Node
The first dedicated ESP32 node: Wi-Fi connection, local status page, sensor readings and data upload to the observatory backend.
Read note →Why I Am Building a Public Project Journal
Turning a private technical experiment into a public project log to document decisions, lessons learned and the evolution of the system.
Read note →The First Public Observatory Dashboard
The first version of the public dashboard: a mobile-oriented page to visualize local weather, light, astronomy data and observation context.
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