AllSky7 Camera

AllSky7 Camera

The society recently received its AllSky7 Meteor camera. We hope to get this mounted and operational soon.

The AllSky7 Camera Module contains seven Sony Starvis IMX290 project cameras mounted on a custom cut aluminum plate and covered with a 250mm acrylic dome. Five of them are mounted around the circumference (72° apart) creating 360 degree coverage of the sky. The other two are looking higher up diametrically opposite. Our camera is the latest version with as well, a fish eye lens at the top, imaging the whole sky but in smaller detail. The images are available on line, updated every 5 minutes. As an example here are the seven daytime views from a German camera, with astronomical orientation (and so the text is easily readable). Clicking on a view rotates it to be upright and larger. 

Our camera will be part of the AllSky7 Fireball Network. The network is mostly in Europe but there are two sites so far in New Zealand, at Mt John Observatory in Canterbury, and Niwa at Lauder in Otago. And a few in the USA.

An example of a fireball seen from Lauder is at https://www.facebook.com/reel/2739390979557634 

AllSky7 cameras around the world can be seen at https://allsky7.net/

although it appears to be out of date since Lauders site is not shown. When we get ours going we'll have to give them a nudge. From here you can see any of the sites camera views.