The Sky at the Endurance Cockpit

Real-time automated feeds from the desert floor track thermal stabilization, barometric trends, and zenith darkness every sixty seconds.

Bortle 2

sky brightness

1.1 arcsec

seeing index

02:00 GST

thermal gradient settled

The Endurance Cockpit

Atmospheric conditions

Current sensor array output

21.65

SQM mag/arcsec²

18.4°C

ambient desert temp

3.2 m/s

wind velocity

34%

relative humidity

Instrumentation

Station sensor architecture

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Davis anemometer

Sky Quality sensor

Automated FTP uplink

Positioned ten meters above the dune crest to measure wind shear and gusts affecting telescope tracking stability.

Continuously logs zenith darkness and micro-cloud interference without atmospheric dispersion interference.

Pushes raw sensor metrics and thermal stabilization logs to the telemetry archive every sixty seconds.