The Asteria project aims to develop a piece of software for meteor videography and analysis. This will process the video feed from a sky-pointing camera in real time to identify and record meteor events. These will be automatically processed to extract astrometric and photometric measurements from the meteor data relevant to the single observing site. These will then be combined with similar measurements from other sites in order to triangulate the meteor trajectory and obtain orbit and landfall estimates.

Many auxiliary processes will be included, for example to maintain an up-to-date geometric and photometric calibration of the camera. The user will be presented with a high level GUI showing the current video signal and various diagnostics. An internet connection will be used to enable remote monitoring and control of the system.

Essential features

• Both GUI and command line interface
• Easy to use for non-experts
• Option to view video feed in real time
• Save raw and annotated video clips
• Integrate and automate the camera calibration in the real time analysis

Desirable features

• Cross platform (Linux & Windows)
• Nice visualisations via integration with Google Maps etc

Improvements over existing software

• Instant real time analysis
• Improved and automated camera calibration
• Improved and automated triangulation based on better centroiding and trajectory model