I have joined the Global Meteor Network see here.
My Stations IE000M and IE000N can be found here
I have some Images and Videos here.
Building my Stations
I started out with one station IE000M with the camera pointing north. Then, when I recorded some Aurora Borealis which was in Black and White because the camera is recording in Infrared, I decided to add another station IE000N pointing east so the camera pointing north could be switched to daylight mode to be in colour when an Aurora Borealis event is forecast.
The Global Meteor Network have excellent comprehensive instructions on how to create a station. I used the Bookworm Image for the Raspberry Pi 5 from here. I have a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2 x 500Gb Nvme Drives and a PoE Hat. This latter I have changed to a battery powered UPS Hat which takes care of any power cuts by shutting the Pi down in an orderly fashion.
The cameras are mounted in waterproof housings with acrylic domes on top mounted on poles on the outside of the observatory.
So now for station IE000M I have a Hd F0.95 Aperture M16 Mount Fixed Iris Cctv Lens For Imx327 Imx291 Cam Module Ir Cut Switcher 4Mm Starlights Video Recorder lens. This was very easy to setup. Just plugged the little cable from the lens into the only socket on the camera which fitted. Then when switching the camera to daylight Mode, the IR Filter is slid into place automatically. The filter slides out when the camera is in Night Mode. This is done by running a script manuall to change the camera settings. Very easy!
For station IE000N I have a 2.0 Megapixel F0.95 Aperture M16 Mount Fixed Iris Cctv Lens IR Filter with a 1/2.7Inch 4Mm Starlights Hd Surveillance Protection Lens
On the Pi I have setup a ZFS Zpool for a mirrored data area.
The cameras run over PoE, so I have a Unifi Switch in my observatory to drive both cameras and originally the Pi. The reason to put it all in the observatory is that the cameras are on poles on the outside of the building, and with the Pi on the same switch as the cameras I will get the fastest connection between them. There is ALOT of data flowing!! I have an Ethernet connection from the Observatory to the Sheep Shed, where my WiFi connects it to the house.
The Global Meteor Network people are very helpful with calibration of the cameras. They have developed some very sophisticated software running on the Pi to do this. They will also help if you run into trouble. Great guys!