Starry, starry night: meteor shower heading for Aotearoa

This article also mentions Aotearoa Fireballs, which I found at https://fireballs.nz. They have a bunch of volunteers that have cameras pointed at the sky which capture data and automatically have footage assessed for meteors.

If you want to set up a camera:

Fortunately, it is easy to get a GMN Raspberry-Pi Meteor Station. There are three ways:
They are easy and cheap to build! The cost of parts is about NZ$500
If building your own camera system isn’t your thing, camera systems are being built in NZ by volunteers and can be sold to you. The cost of these assembled camera systems is currently $550 including postage. Please e-mail FireballsAotearoa@gmail.com so we can send you more information.

(Yes it says three ways then proceeds to list two)

I'm not sure I consider that price cheap but it does sound like fun!

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This is good, I have a bunch of wishes I need to make rn.
This article also mentions Aotearoa Fireballs, which I found at https://fireballs.nz. They have a bunch of volunteers that have cameras pointed at the sky which capture data and automatically have footage assessed for meteors.
If you want to set up a camera:
Fortunately, it is easy to get a GMN Raspberry-Pi Meteor Station. There are three ways:
They are easy and cheap to build! The cost of parts is about NZ$500
If building your own camera system isn’t your thing, camera systems are being built in NZ by volunteers and can be sold to you. The cost of these assembled camera systems is currently $550 including postage. Please e-mail FireballsAotearoa@gmail.com so we can send you more information.
(Yes it says three ways then proceeds to list two)
I'm not sure I consider that price cheap but it does sound like fun!