Meteor Detector
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I think a cluster of these would be perfect to comb through thousands of night sky photos every day to identify meteor strikes.

In proper terminology, my 'cluster' will not run MPI or other clustering software.  It will be a group of independent work nodes.  The basic workflow is:

Get three sequential images where the middle one has not yet been processed.
Process the photos (convert from Canon RAW format; adjust brightness, contrast, etc...; compare the images; look at middle image for meteor signs like streaks or other irregularities)
Report results back to the main MySQL server.

Other computers in this class (like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc...) just don't have the horsepower to do this well.  I have tried this on a single 64 bit computer running Windows 7 but this shows bottlenecks in processing, OS Context Switching and network/HD access.  I believe having several Pine64s crunch through the images will work much better.

If this work well and I have time and money for the additional hardware, I may use the same methodology to search for asteroids.  We shall see.   Wink


Messages In This Thread
Meteor Detector - by BostonBay - 02-11-2016, 01:53 PM
RE: Meteor Detector - by Ghost - 02-11-2016, 03:50 PM
RE: Meteor Detector - by jimmy2222 - 02-24-2016, 02:03 AM
RE: Meteor Detector - by BostonBay - 02-24-2016, 04:49 PM
RE: Meteor Detector - by Ghost - 02-24-2016, 06:53 PM
RE: Meteor Detector - by Madroxprime - 02-25-2016, 08:28 AM
RE: Meteor Detector - by BostonBay - 02-26-2016, 10:28 AM

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