Category: All Sky Cameras

Comment on Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Induced Polarization

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 18, 2021

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_paper_scientific_document_that_shows_how_much_mA_is_typically_considered_as_the_input_current_in_the_ERT_and_IP_fields2 Mostafa Ebrahimi, When you ask questions like this, spell out what all the acronyms. IP is mostly “intellectual property” or other things on the Internet. “electrical resistivity tomography” “induced polarization” gives 42,100 entries on Google search. That means it is fairly mature. If you are actively surveying a large region you might
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Comment on Geomagnetically Induced Current Data

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Gravitational Engineering June 18, 2021

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Please_I_want_to_enquire_How_can_I_download_Geomagnetically_induced_current_data_GIC_of_one_minute_time_resolution_data Alaa Mohamed, Today I was just reviewing “global conductivity models” and “geomagnetically induced currents” for the Internet Foundation. The common practice seems to be to use 1D and 3D conductivity models, then use the fairly dense magnetotelluric (MT) arrays for the changing magnetic fields that induce the changes. There are LOTS of electromagnetic datasets.
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Comment on Lucky Imaging and global telescope networks

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 18, 2021

£700 vs £7,000,000: Astrophotography Shoot Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCyC3_YIME Ryan Fay? Your link in the description is broken (luckyimage) should probably be https://www.astrobiscuit.com/deepspaceluckyimaging There are better ways to combine images from many different sensors. You talked about hundreds?, thousands?, millions?, billions? of people combining images to improve earth surface imaging. Take the human out of the loop.
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Trying to suggest better ways to use live webcams, Contact Form limited

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 6, 2021

WMAC Trentham Camera 1 Live Stream I came across your live webcam at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYnPVzwYbk Wellington Model Aeroplane Club, Radio control aircraft and multirotors (drones) at https://wmac.org.nz/ Please put a link to your organization below in the description. Also tilt the camera up and show the sky not that roof. It is OK to have tilt.
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Comment on Live YouTube video of Meteor echoes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 2, 2021

LIVE Radio Meteor Echoes Stream from Scotland Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNkjWkpOdE Should it say “MegaHertz”? not “Hz” Just searching for “radio meteor echoes” I see 60 MHz and 50 MHz. 3.5 MHz, 29 MHz, 1300 MHz, 1.98 MHz, 143.05 MHz. Seems like “it depends” but no one has written it down in a concise rule book.
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Comment on Houston Astronomical Society Star Parties – Elon Musk All Sky Cameras

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, GravityNotes, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 2, 2021

Steve and Amelia Goldberg, If Houston Astronomical Society (HAS) would share recordings online, then star parties can be continuous and world wide. Soon, in human terms, there will be people observing from the far side of the moon and from Mars. So I hope Houston Astronomical Society will be a world leader in online community
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Archiving and Sharing lossless sky data for all the people on earth

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 2, 2021

Dominic, I spoke to Chuck Allen, vice president of the Astronomical League, yesterday — https://www.astroleague.org/al/general/contact.html “The Astronomical League is composed of over two hundred and forty (280 now) local amateur astronomical societies from all across the United States.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_League (pretty thin description) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_societies We talked almost an hour about the growth of Internet sharing (I
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Comment on Facebook Allsky Camera group site

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 Do you know of even one allsky camera on the Internet that shares live lossless images? And archives lossless images for stacking, research, correlations? The usual photos of stars and planets on the Internet are in jpg, or compressed video, so the pixels are not real pixels. The location and properties of the camera
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Comment to Astronomical League

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 28, 2021

I had to try several times to get the LONG captcha code right. My eyes are really tired and it makes no sense. Finally realized they were using case sensitive. It failed because it was more than 1024 characters. Did they tell me there was a limit? No. Did they warn me that I went
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All sky live cameras for teaching, research and learning to collaborate globally

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

Luis, Attilla — Hi Dodie, Gary, I appreciate you looking into this. I got a separate reply from Attilla Danko offering to help with monitoring and reporting on all sky visibility. Lenses that see the whole sky will have visible areas on parts of the sky. I have found live cameras where a few stars
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