Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
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Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
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Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#2I wonder how long the sensors on those cameras can survive being pointed up at the sky like that. Surely the image quality would deteriorate over time as the sun destroys the sensor until it eventually stops working.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#3I was hoping this was a diy type of project. I’d love to contribute to something like this.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#4Unclear what the relationship is with the Global Meteor Network (https://globalmeteornetwork.org/) that has people build meteor cameras, often based on RPis, and then contribute the data so that meteor orbits can be determined.
This site: https://tammojan.github.io/meteormap/ shows the meteors detected over the last 24 hours. You can see that the UK is pretty well covered with cameras as are some parts of Europe. The US is rather sparser -- with only Arizona having good coverage.
Building a camera is fairly easy and is under $200 -- most of the parts can be ordered on Aliexpress.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#5Oh, they even have UFOs!
https://pigazing.dcford.org.uk/moving_obj.php?id=20220114_20...
(BTW, nice overlays below the video player and a neat project overall.)
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#6I wonder how long the sensors on those cameras can survive being pointed up at the sky like that. Surely the image quality would deteriorate over time as the sun destroys the sensor until it eventually stops working.
The cameras are only used at night, since that's when meteors are visible.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#7I wonder how long the sensors on those cameras can survive being pointed up at the sky like that. Surely the image quality would deteriorate over time as the sun destroys the sensor until it eventually stops working.
The cameras are only used at night, since that's when meteors are visible.
I'd be interested in how they protect the sensors during day. After briefly skimming the sources it doesn't seems to be present any code to activate/deactivate an external shutter or servo to rotate the camera away from sunlight. There is code to turn the camera on and off but it doesn't seem to do anything else beyond that.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#8I wonder how long the sensors on those cameras can survive being pointed up at the sky like that. Surely the image quality would deteriorate over time as the sun destroys the sensor until it eventually stops working.
The cameras are only used at night, since that's when meteors are visible.
Fully powering off the camera will help, but I imagine with direct sunlight going through the lens and hitting the sensor the heat could still damage it, despite it not recording.
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#9Unclear what the relationship is with the Global Meteor Network ( https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ ) that has people build meteor cameras, often based on RPis, and then contribute the data so that meteor orbits can be determined. This site: https://tammojan.github.io/meteormap/ shows the meteors detected over the last 24 hours. You can see that the UK is pretty well covered with cameras as are some parts of Europe. T…
How I should read the metor lines? What end of the line is impact point? It is really an impact point or last point where the light was observered. How I can search for a metheor using this map?
Re: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
#10Could this be used to track sattelites of space debris?
You might need to be imaging in a different wavelength....I'm unsure how this would be done.