Pole-star recorder

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pole-star recorder

An instrument used to determine approximately the amount of cloudiness during the dark hours.

It consists of a fixed long-focus camera positioned so that Polaris is permanently within its field of view. The apparent motion of the star appears as a circular arc on the photograph and is interrupted as clouds come between the star and the camera.


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