Dale,
Yes, great imagery from a 4MP camera. The Reolink-810a is 4K, which is why I upgraded from a Reolink-510a that was 5MP. But neither was sensitive enough to show the night sky. I was skeptical when Mike recommended the Dahua since it's only 4MP, but since I got it from Amazon, I figured I could return it. But it performs much better than either Reolink camera, at least for my location that has houses with lights on at night within camera view. It also maintains color imagery at night.
You noticed those meteor showers! Yes, impressive that the camera captures them.
All Dahua cameras have a default IP address of 192.168.1.108 (that you can modify) and by entering that into you browser, it opens a dashboard. Here's a screen capture of the main tab with a live view of the camera:
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Reolink has an app for PC and mobile phone/tablet where you can view live imagery and, with a microSD card, playback video loops.
IPTimelapse requires the camera's IP address plus username and password. You tell IPTimelapse where to save each image and timelapse file. I store them directly to my Synology NAS that runs my weather website. You can also setup a Live feed to YouTube in IPTimelapse.
My camera is not steerable but it has a fairly wide view. Dahua does make PTZ cameras that are steerable but I don't have any experience with those.
Bill