Category: All Sky Cameras

Visiting NSF NOIRLab for the first time – looking for pixels from telescopes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 4, 2021

Hello, For the Internet Foundation, I am looking at many data and model sharing efforts on the Internet. To judge difficulty of use, gather notes on practices, policies, methods, content, groups, and links between efforts. I am posting this note also to /?p=1230 so more people can see it. If you want me to change
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Please correct an error on Sciencing.com, Physics of Plasma Globes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 2, 2021

I happened on a nicely done study of the plasma ball. The filaments are re-created every cycle. They start as spherically symmetric (probably depending on the roughness of the sphere they use) and then extend outward at fast but finite speed. Each cycle, the tendrils (that is the most common name so far) follow the
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Note to Astronomical League

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 30, 2021

https://www.astroleague.org/ I found a few YouTube live all sky cameras. They are for weather, weather research, astronomical viewing planning, a tiny bit of actual teaching of human astronomical methods, some moon and sun projects, some cosmic ray and lightning, some comet, some other things. I just wondered if your members and groups are doing this,
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Cosmic ray shadow of the sun and moon, LIGO Array moon sun tracking

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 26, 2021

I was just going to say thanks for doing these. But: Have you heard of anyone trying to pick up the sun or moon presence in other networks? Was getting ready to point the older LIGO array of three detectors in the direction of the moon and sun to see if it could pick up “moon”
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Comments on UCAR community registration and purpose, global climate change

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 24, 2021

I was looking at https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/gpcp-daily-global-precipitation-climatology-project where it says “Become a Registered User”. Courteous, inviting. But click and it says, “Access denied, The page you requested requires that you login.” So it seems to login you have to register, and to register you have to be able to log in. Your cookie banners are not necessary
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Comment on Mars Helicopter Snaps color image – Metric, Documenting, Teaching, Sharing

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 24, 2021

You are very thoughtful. Yes, I agree about the usual human practices and methods. Every single one of the tens of thousands of groups I studied in detail on the Internet ended up failing or limiting themselves because of the greed of a few people, or policies that benefited only their group. It is particularly
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LIGO Detector locations and times for solar system correlation studies

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 23, 2021

Jonah, Thanks, that first link seems to answer my immediate question about reference location and calculating time between sensors. Thanks for the pointer, I should have been able to easily find such a key piece of the puzzle. https://pycbc.org/pycbc/latest/html/detector.html My son, Ben, set up a Linux server with Python and ran some samples. I found
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Using the Internet to represent and compress reality without loss

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Richard Collins Life and Purpose, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 18, 2021

Ben, I read your description and it is clear. I want the flexibility for myself. If the environment and tool it rigid, I know that I won’t be able to build the things I want. That includes (G) gathering and organizing things, (E) exploration and mapping new kinds of things (C) comparison and classification (S)
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