Aðaldalshraun All-Sky Camera

News: April/May 2026

The aurora season is pretty much over now for 2025–2026 so there won't be any new timelapses until September. The cameras will still provide the last 24 hours but the archive won't be updated.

YouTube feed will continue as normal, although I might replace the music with the actual audio so you can hear the birds.

You may have noticed that the YouTube cameras have been swapped out for a purpose built unit. It has a bit more distortion than I was expecting but it doesn't suffer as much from contrast differences as the light changes. It also looks significantly less robust than the stated IP67 in the typical Chinese literature so it definitely will need hardening up before the winter.

The water situation continues to be problematic. It appears not to be frozen but potentially a crushed or blocked pipe. There's no loss of pressure at the borehole but zero pressure at the cabin. I've sent a borescope up as far as 20m which reveals nothing but there's a join that the camera can't get through so it's obviously after that. The pipe is fed off a main 100m from the cabin, which is fine so it looks like a few days digging and a new section laying. It's been down there for over 40 years and the old lava is always moving so plastic pipes can easily get crushed.

A lot of structural happenings on the cabin over the summer. New windows and I'm going to make a start on ripping out the old deck to replace. While we're digging up the old water pipe it's an opportunity to move some of the massive boulders from around the foundations, and possibly put some crushed lava on the driveway to make it a little more accessible. So every cloud has a silver lining.

Anyways, if you're in the north feel free to drop by for coffee. Bring cake, oh and a spade.

tim@netnurds.com