RSSArduino photo lightning trigger
Here's a relatively simple approach to lightning photography using a trusty blueboard -
[...] the most useful piece of data in the wikipedia article is the time lapse shot of a lightning strike. From the time lapse photo I was able to determine the duration of a lightning strike is about 100 ms. Then from this page I found my Canon 30d camera has a shutter lag of 65 ms. I know from a past project that if I use a reverse biased photo transistor to detect light it has a response time under 1 ms. The last piece of delay is the software running on the Arduino board and since it’s running at 16 MHz I am sure I can run a tight loop that takes under 1 ms. Adding up all the delays, I get 67 ms which is still much less than the 100 ms duration of a lightning strike so I was pretty confident this would work before I started work on the prototype.- Lightning trigger [via Hack a Day]
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Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jun 12, 2008 05:00 AM
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| Posted by: askvictor on June 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM |
I was toying with this concept some years ago; apparently lightning-photographing-professionals have an AM radio by their side, tuned to as low a frequency as possible. There is meant to be a change in the static signal just before the lightning bolt. I suspect this would have to do with the charge of the surrounding air increasing. I wonder if the signal change is reliable enough to build a similar triggering device.
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Posted by: Collin Cunningham on June 12, 2008 at 4:52 PM |
perhaps a VLF receiver would be applicable?
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/space_weather_receiver.html
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