A few questions:
0. What does the supervisor want to find out?
... Do glow worms get into sync? Like synchronised fire flys.
1. Do yo want to measure the light from a single glow worm?
... Intensity vs time plot?
2. All the glow worms in a view?
... estimate of surface magnitude?
3. How far from the glow worms is the sensor to be?
Use a web cam? Start of a good idea! - CCD camera seems good. You may need a reference glow worm (calibration source)
Alot of answers are needed before good advice can be given - the web cam idea is brilliant. Use of a large light collector? thats what one ends up using.
Jerry.
