Fully Autonomous All- Sky Camera
Since the invention of digital cameras, electronic units of cameras have been used as surveillance equipment with a variety of optical devices. With the development of wide-field optics, use of the digital cameras for obtaining data from a large field of view has grown rapidly. These types of wide-field cameras are being used in monitoring the sky for various scientific research and known as hemispherical, whole sky or all-sky cameras. These cameras have a field of view 180º which is a unique advantage, thus any activity in the sky can be recorded optically. Ground based all-sky cameras are frequently used in meteor detection, extra solar planet detection and gamma ray bursts detection in the astronomy field. In atmospheric physics the all-sky cameras are being used in monitoring cloud formation, measuring solar irradiance levels and for confirming satellite weather data. These cameras are used in security and defense for monitoring, locating intruding aircrafts and drones.
