Creating appropriate drivers for the cameras. Ideally many cameras will be supported, but we'll have to start on ones that we can configure easily without NDAs. Create an encoding pipeline to compress the video into a small enough filesize to be reliably transported on USB or over a network. This project needs help. Oct 06, 2020 · Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. A wide-angle lens will capture more of the sky and give you a greater chance of capturing a meteor in your shot, while a zoom lens captures a smaller area of the sky. The odds of a meteor streaking past that small patch are lower. 5. Use a shutter release cable or the camera’s built-in timer.. Even the simple task of visually counting meteors can be greatly improved through video imaging. For example, during the 1998 Geminid meteor shower astronomer Tony Phillips observed a 20 degree-wide patch of sky centered on the constellation Orion for 3 hours using an Astrovid 2000 CCD video camera..