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Dropping in to this thread a bit late, but ...
The all-sky cam is a very good idea. Such cams are used for meteor tracking right now and are very useful for the purpose.
You need a time stamper to get good (ideally GPS based, or at least NTP based) time signatures on each frame. Otherwise your images are going to be of limited value even for the meteor hunters.
An infrared all-sky cam would also be helpful, but such cams have very poor resolution right now (think 256 x 256 for a $5k unit) and that is not really going to be very helpful.
If you want to spring for a second all sky cam mounted a few km away from the first cam, this will improve the utility enormously. With GPS time stamps on both cams, you will be able to triangulate the height of the object(s) seen, whether meteors, aeroplanes, balloons, or whatever.
The other posts in this thread about "fitness for purpose" are outside of my knowledge. A lawyer would be the required person to provide those opinions, and for a fee.
Regards,
Tony Barry
WSAAG
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