Mitman Neighboorhood
5650 E. 1st Street
Tucson, AZ - USA
Near Speedway Blvd. and Craycroft Rd.

Lat: N 32°14'5" (32.235°)
Lon: W 110°52'16" (-110.871°)

Elevation: 2506 ft

Hardware: Oregon Scientific WMR100A.
Software: Virtual Weather Station 14.00p45 Internet Edition.

The camera is an Olympus SP-700 6 MP Digital Camera connected to a desktop PC via USB. It is housed in a custom-built enclosure mounted roughly 20ft above the ground. Two small solar-powered fans provide ventilation during the hottest period of the day. A picture is taken once every 30 seconds using Cam2Com. The picture is then compressed and a text overlay is added by ImageSalsa. ImageSalsa then uploads the final picture to WeatherUnderground and this site.

The camera is pointed north towards the Santa Catalina Mountains and Mount Lemmon.

In early September of 2009, a close lightning strike damaged the usb electronics on the camera and fried the computer it was connected to. This information is left purely for historical purposes. The camera is a Nikon Coolpix 990 3.34MP Digital Camera connected to a desktop PC via USB. It is housed in a custom-built enclosure mounted roughly 20ft above the ground. Two small solar-powered fans provide ventilation during the hottest period of the day. A picture is taken once every minute using cPix Camera Control Software. The picture is then compressed and a text overlay is added by ImageSalsa. ImageSalsa then uploads the final picture to WeatherUnderground and this site.

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