Wow! I’m reviewing my sky camera captures and there were some great meteors on the night of the 28th/29th.
@MookyTroubadour sky camera...something like a dashcam with a high capacity card aimed at the sky?
🤔🤔 That's an interesting idea!
@Damobius I use a raspberry pi and raspberry pi cams of various versions. The images you see here are the pic camera v3 with no IR filter. It lives under an acrylic dome and takes 10 second exposures back to back (there is a little lag- intend to get 5 shots per minute). I have everything scripted and it compiles all the still images into a movie for me to download. If you want to give it a go, it’s maybe $150 ish in hardware, and I can share my scripts.
@MookyTroubadour that sounds like a fun project for our 10-year old and I. If it's an easy share without taking too much of your time, I'd certainly be interested in seeing it!
@Damobius the rest is all scripted. I kick off the images at 10PM now that it’s summer, and cut that off at 4:30am or so.
I have a script that uses ImageMagick to take the image info and put it up in the left corner of each frame. That takes typically a half hour or so to process the few thousand stills. Then I have a script that simply lists all the JPg files so that FFMPEG can build a time lapse video.
I've got an old nanocomp in the closet that I could easily turn into another Ubuntu file server to collect the output.
As usual, I bite off a mouthful of apple and start chewing the whole tree 🤦♂️
@Damobius I should also mention that the v2 cameras and prior have a shutter limitation of 6 seconds.
@Damobius you could probably use an older/slower Pi if you were just going to take pictures, but I’d worry a little about the lag time between shots. That’s not a crisis, but you might get only 3 to 4 ten second exposures per minute that way. Easy to miss stuff with gaps like that.