ASGARD All-Sky Camera Network
Overview
As part of the Western Meteor Group's Southern Ontario Meteor Network sensor suite we have deployed seven all-sky video systems designed to automatically detect bright fireballs. The cameras detect bright meteors as they burn up in the atmosphere. The all-sky video network component of the SOMN was developed originally from hardware and software supplied by Sandia National Labs as part of their sentinel camera network. Our intent was to use a dense array of all-sky cameras (with spacing of order 50-100 km) to record many meteors from multiple stations. The intent is to use the moderate precision metric data for comparison with other instrumental recordings of the same event and to act as a "trigger" for other instruments in the SOMN. Here we sacrifice precision in favour of semi-automation in reduction. The distirbution of cameras (yellow circles) in the network is shown below.
