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An All-Sky Camera is like a low-light level
surveillance camera that you find in the department

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store.

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We stick a fish-eye lense on top of it so
it can see the entire sky and we position

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these all around the country and they're separated
by about 50 to 80 miles so we can triangulate

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and determine the meteor trajectory in it's
orbit and how big it is and stuff like that.

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We have about 15 of these.

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Six in the Southeast, three are up in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, two are in New Mexico and

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three are in Arizona and we're looking to
deploy more and with these we can see the

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bigger meteroids, the stuff about an inch
across.

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The camera is what we call ytech902h2.

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It’s simply a 30 Frames per second surveillance
camera.

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It's extremely sensitive.

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It’s like what you put in a dark parking
lot so it's good at seeing things in the dark.

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What makes it special is the software.

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We pipe that video into a computer and the
software that is constantly looking at that

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video stream and looking for meteors and when
it finds a meteor in the video it saves it

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off the disc for analysis.