French Hobbyist Taps GPU for Stellar Camera

By day, Alain Paillou is the head of water quality for the Bourgogne region of France. But when the stars come out, he indulges his other passions. Paillou takes exquisitely crisp pictures of the moon, stars and planets — a hobby that combines his lifelong love of astronomy and technology. Earlier this year, he chronicled on an NVIDIA forum his work building what he calls SkyNano, a GPU-powered camera to take detailed images of the night sky using NVIDIA’s Jetson Nano.