/gps-controlled-lcd-shutter

Create a GPS locked waveform to drive an LCD panel used for meteor photography

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

gps-controlled-lcd-shutter

Introduction

Photography of large meteoroids penetrating deeply into the Earth's atmosphere. Addition to traditional multi-station photography with periodic shutters for calculating the atmospheric trajectory and velocity of the meteoroid: add 1 Hz time markers to the waveform driving an LCD shutters. This creates additional reference points for comparing records from multiple stations. This technique was pioneered by the Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic [reference needed].

Required waveform

The required meteor obstruction pattern is visible from the photograph below (courtesy of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).

When using an LCD shutter to realize the required pattern one needs an LCD opaqueness waveform represented in the figure below.

Reference design

Based on TIMEPULSE and TIMEPULSE2 signals from a Ublox Neo-M8T SoC.

More simple and economical design

Based on an Arduino board.