Left: Drawing of the ZWO ASI174MC camera head and the Fujinon F/1.4 all-sky lens. All measurements are in mm. Right: Drawing of the cooled version of the camera head with Sun protection.

Scientific objectives
Instrument is designed to do real time low light monitoring of the sky to study cloud cover, light pollution and aurora during dark sky conditions.

The instrument is based on a commercial available CMOS camera and a fish-eye lens (medium cost). It is the camera used in the Boreal Aurora Camera Constellation (BACC)

Owner: UNIS
Contacts PI: Fred Sigernes
Address: UNIS, P.O. Box 156,
N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
E-mail: fred@unis.no

Instrument specifications
Camera: ZWO Sony Exmor IMX174
Lens: Fujinon C-mount F/1.4 (185 degree circular)
Spatial coverage: All sky
Resolution binned 2x2: 608 x 608 pixels
Software: ZWOASI1074MC (Winx64)
Time resolution: 1 frame / second
Spectral resolution: RGB color