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Category: All Sky Cameras

The MaunaKea Observatory group of 12 nonprofit observatories cannot seem to operate a single live lossless video feed of one part of the sky

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data September 25, 2023

I am looking at the live internet video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76rwjwc07DI labeled “Meteor Shower and Starry skies 24/7 LIVE from the Subaru Telescope on MaunaKea, Hawaii”, I tried to figure out the camera location, direction and parameter, fundamental for any one of the roughly 5 Billion internet users to understand what they are seeing and when
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Elon Musk giving back the night sky to all humans, especially those in large cities – lossless too, for study

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Live Video and Data Streams Shared, Machine Vision, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working September 22, 2023

I heard that Elon Musk was going to put high resolution lossless format cameras on all his satellites — pointing at all part of the heavens, to give all humans a live stream of their part of the night sky. Thanks, Elon, for giving back the night sky. Two billion kids say thanks. @X,  Could
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YouTube lossy formats – Audacity Spectrograms Mahler Symphony, Dojo Cat

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Assistive Technologies September 17, 2023

https://vloggergear.com/youtube-video-formats/ Thanks for gathering and sharing this. I am looking for lossless open video formats for scientific sharing, and where AI machine vision is important. Recommending permanent lossless archives for some feeds where it forms the basis of global open collaborations. Experiments, weather, sky, wildlife, crops, storms, stars and things in the sky like satellites,
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Electromagnetic, ionic, and gravitational effects of earthquakes and earth tides

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data, GravityNotes, Neutrinos CosmicRays NewParticles August 18, 2023

Anton Petrov: Unexplained Earthquake Light Phenomenon Finally Captured on Camera at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05NmTEeXvhs Anton, This argues for keeping permanent all-sky (fish eye and other name) cameras to monitor the sky above regions where there are earthquakes, like where the earth is pulling apart. Beside piezoelectric, there are also piezomagnetic materials which will change the electromagnetic fields. The
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Gravity images of the sun below the photosphere, Cameras and Memory Chips as gravitational detectors

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field August 4, 2023

Hi Athiray, I was just going to write you. I am reading about soft x-ray camera noise. “Performance characterization of UV science cameras developed for the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter” And now reading “Modeling charge transport in Swept Charge Devices for X-ray spectroscopy” I have been tracking the solar imaging groups for several years, and slowly
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Twitter – space and earth based time of flight correlation imaging arrays

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, GravityNotes June 24, 2023

Physical Review D @PhysRevD Jun 23 The space-based detector LISA @LISACommunity will search for gravitational waves using Time Delay Interferometry variables. A new Suggestion shows that different variable choices than are commonly studied can perform better in non-ideal conditions. #EdSugg https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.123531 Replying to @PhysRevD and @LISACommunity Please also look inside the sun, inside the earth,
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Atacama: Teaching radio astronomy and science and measurement to students in nearby countries, should help all countries

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Assistive Technologies, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun May 29, 2023

Atacama Makers teaching radio astronomy and science and measurement to students in nearby countries https://almaobservatory.org/en/announcements/atacama-makers-innovating-from-the-schools-of-the-desert/ Valeria Foncea, I visited the Atacama Makers page.  It was very dissatisfying.  None of the pictures was explained. If you are helping one country’s children, but could post materials online for 5 billion Internet users, that is just sad if
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The Efficient Engineer: Bolted Joints, accessible parts and components, heliospheric economics

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Assistive Technologies, Solar System Colonization May 28, 2023

The Efficient Engineer: The Incredible Strength of Bolted Joints at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzTB4KLCxU The Efficient Engineer, If parts, components, systems, and supplies are not universally (globally) accessible and widely used, that imposes a high cost. You show Mars.  There, heavy bolts and Amazon overnight are likely not going to be available right away. The annual Earth budget is
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