Category: All Sky Cameras

I love it as an evocative image. But I absolutely hate that you used a lossy format

https://x.com/Havenlust/status/1854750698769920469/photo/1 My comment: I love it as an evocative image. But I absolutely hate that you used a lossy format so I cannot study the pixels with deep algorithms I know and design. NONE of the colors will match the original. Because you let the bad jpeg algorithms chew up your raw sensor data and
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Copy posted on X summarizing “Richard and OpenAI ChatGPT refine ideas related to sharing and using all data, forever”

Richard and OpenAI ChatGPT refine ideas related to sharing and using all data, forever [ full conversation at /?p=18322 ]   Richard Collins:   I am looking at some of the Rubin Observatory postings and sites on the Internet. It is ONE project but many fragmented sites, styles, purposes, methods and policies.   What are
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Rubin Observatory questions – Commissioning camera data sharing tests

Rubin Observatory questions – Commissioning camera data sharing tests Can the 5.4 Billion Internet users download images from the test camera in raw format to test your Internet sharing methods and pathways? Where are the specifications for the test (“commissioning” ) camera? Specifications for the test survey? Do you have the data sharing plan during
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Controlling and shaping the near field to generate 2 meter or 20 meter long plasma channels

It should be possible to form that into a single beam. Thanks for sharing. Controlling and shaping the near field to generate 2 meter or 20 meter long plasma channels It would need an additional array of charge and voltage nodes, sensors and machine intelligence algorithm. I am just saying it should be possible. My
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Super-magnification of the sun with real time autofocus algorithms and precise, fast response corrections

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491 Ralph, Is there any lossless format for videos (a stack of images) of the type you posted? I mostly cannot clearly see now, so I study the data in the images. Much of solar, astronomical, satellite and other images need processing, not just human eyeballs that fail with time. Any suggestions? I see that
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Synchronizing images of the sun and other things, with many independent observers

How do I match up your image with ones from public sources? Here is a GONG H-alpha from Cerro Tololo (CHL) for 2024-10-25 13:38:42Z. Is is possible to match images from different places on earth and compare them? https://gong2.nso.edu/HA/hag/202410/20241025/20241025133842Ch.jpg Here is the page I found by searching “live H alpha images of the sun”. Looking
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Sharing Lossless images and videos on the Internet

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1848782359967002993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8iGuyocCs Sharing Lossless images and videos on the Internet Very expensive hobby, lots of specialized equipment, remote location, communication services, software and time. And no shared raw data or videos. I have always hated ‘astronomers’ who say “look what I can do and you cannot afford”. When I was little I had people who
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