Even for hobbyists, astrophotography requires fancy and expensive gear, mounts, and cameras. In order to gather really good photos, you need a very stable and accurate mount. You also need a guide camera that tracks the movement of a star and sends corrective pulses to your mount to accurately follow this star. This process of tracking and sending guiding pulses creates a ton of metric data – data that can be stored in Grafana Cloud and visualized. In this session, Senior Solutions Engineer Willie Engelbrecht will show examples of what happens when guiding goes wrong (photos of blurry stars, star trailing), some failed (but still cool) images of galaxies, and the money shots when Grafana helped improve his astrophotography.
- Willie Engelbrecht
Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Willie Engelbrecht
Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Willie is currently enjoying a new hobby: astrophotography. He also loves to tinker and visualize all kinds of data in Grafana. Willie has been a user of Grafana for over 6 years and likes helping everyone democratize their observability strategy.