Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
A project called Pi Gazing uses Raspberry Pi computers and CCTV cameras to monitor the night sky, tracking objects like shooting stars and satellites. Users can access open-source code and observations on GitHub.
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Pi Gazing is a project utilizing Raspberry Pi computers connected to CCTV cameras to monitor the night sky. The system analyzes video feeds in real-time to track moving objects like shooting stars, satellites, and aircraft. Additionally, it captures long-exposure still photos to determine camera direction, calibrate lens distortions, and observe celestial movements and changes. The open-source program code and hardware designs are available on GitHub. Users can explore the archive of observations on the website, including recent sightings of satellites, planes, and other phenomena. The project offers a unique opportunity to observe the night sky and celestial events through a network of cameras.
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9 commentsThis 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.
There's one for tracking lightning strikes globally too: www.blitzortung.org
https://pigazing.dcford.org.uk/howitworks.php
The camera is a Watec 902H2 Ultimate, and the lense is one of these:
https://github.com/dcf21/pi-gazing/blob/master/configuration...
Probably the "Siemens 1/2" F1.2 4-12mm Varifocal Auto Iris C Mount CCTV Lens" since the AutoIris port on the camera is connected to the lense in the picture. The video capture is an Easier CAP USB capture device, like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/355668644499
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32832474454.html
The Pi is a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B according to the text but the photo caption says it's a Pi Mk 3, maybe either will work. It has a Pi Hat adapter board on the top (POE plugs into it and it seems to have a relay that connects to the camera, maybe to control power to the camera). The camera outdoor housing is made by Genie, looks like a TPH-2000, no longer made, runs on 240V and has a heater:
https://www.citysecuritysystems.co.uk/genie-tph-2000-230v
In the picture, maybe that's the heater board underneath the camera?
(BTW, nice overlays below the video player and a neat project overall.)
You might need to be imaging in a different wavelength....I'm unsure how this would be done.
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