Autonomous Meteor Detector and Tracker

Team Members: Eric Khumbata, Jasper Eng, Zhiwen Liu, Cameron Simard

Meteors and fireballs are elusive events! They’re hard to track and when they can be tracked, it is of great importance to know where they end up. Our goal is to design and build a safe system for autonomously identifying and tracking meteors that is affordable, durable, and open source. This system would have a low impact on the environment, take a minimal amount of power to run, and boasts a small footprint. It does however, provide a very big benefit to researches and amateur enthusiasts of astronomy. Since this system would be widely available, it would create a vast amount of data to be analysed and utilized.