Automatic camera monitoring

How your home could become part of a nationwide meteor detection network

Setting up a camera at home means that you can record meteors all night, every night. “To get started, you need a CCTV camera with an auto iris lens, which will automatically protect the camera from the sunlight during the day,” says Peter Campbell-Burns, one of the founders of the UK Meteor Observing Network (UKMON), a group of amateur astronomers who run their own meteor detection cameras. “The cameras need to sit inside a waterproof housing so that you can set them up outside. You need a video decoder, which turns the analogue camera signal into a digital form and passes it to a PC. Then we use the UFO software suite from SonotaCo to run the cameras, and record and analyse data. Alternatively you can use CAMS. Depending on…

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