All Sky Camera Network
The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University is developing an all sky camera system intended to monitor, track, and analyze atmospheric meteor events to provide a database for assisting satellite operators in separating natural and man-made events and for instrument calibration tasks.
Collaborations
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM provided seed funding in 2008 to begin development of ground-based network cameras for observing meteor/fireball events NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Investigating All Sky and Guided Automatic Real-time Detection (ASGARD) calibration and processing code.
First All Sky Camera in Asia
Sandia National Lab in collaboration with New Mexico State University has granted 3 all sky camera for meteor observation in India, these were first all sky cam in Continent of Asia. All these have been placed at 3 nodes of Gurudev Observatory - Vadodra, Shantikunj-Haridwar and Rajanandgaon, Chhatishgadh.
Objectives
- Meteor detection through frame imaging and video
- To create interest in youth about meteor observtion in India
- Collaborate within Indian network of gurudevobservatory and with rest of the world about meteor observation.
- Research & education on meteor detaction, observation, recognition etc.
- Observation of sattelites, UFO etc, which are passing over the sites.
Useful links
- NMSU All Sky Camera Network: http://skysentinel.nmsu.edu/allsky/
- IMO Video Meteor Network: http://www.imonet.org/#1
- American Meteor Society: http://www.amsmeteors.org
Pictures of the All Sky Camera equipment
The All Sky Camera
The All Sky Camera dome and accessories
All Sky Camera Results
The sky over the observatory from the All Sky Camera
The sky over the observatory from the All Sky Camera
The sky over the observatory from the All Sky Camera
Gallery of pictures of the launch of the project and the equipment
Videos from the All Sky Camera
DSVV fireball observation:
Meteor seen by the All Sky Camera:
