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Starry, starry night: meteor shower heading for Aotearoa (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by Dave to c/newzealand
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On 12 December between 8pm and 12:30am "New Zealand is in the prime place to see the first meteor shower associated with comet 46P.

I didn't see anything in the article about which direction to look.

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[–] liv 3 points 11 months ago

This is good, I have a bunch of wishes I need to make rn.

[–] Dave 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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!