Category: All Sky Cameras

A “standard” not shared completely on the Internet is not a workable tool for global collaboration

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, All Sky Cameras, Electrokinetic Electrodynamic Field Methods, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Extended atomic and nuclear materials, Gravitational Engineering September 15, 2024

Freya Blekman @freyablekman #CMSPaper 1338 describes a precision measurement of the production rate of the quantum carriers of the weak force, the Z and W bosons. These measurements allow comparison and improvement of detailed understanding of the strong force in the standard model https://buff.ly/3ZaS4kI https://pic.x.com/593sfmughe Replying to @freyablekman A “standard” not shared completely on the
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Comments on Email ad, and sites, from an astronomy sales company

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, All Sky Cameras August 21, 2024

You sent me this email encouraging me to visit your YouTube website, but did not provide an obvious link to it. ONLY “subscribe” — without ever seeing it. Also, on your website there is no obvious link to YouTube, nor Twitter(X), only Facebook,and that is at the bottom of contact us page not obvious. Do
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Solar observing, Newtons Rings – artifacts of narrow band filtering, use it for good not evil

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Solar Observing, Visualizations Simulations August 14, 2024

Drexel Glasgow posted images 14 Aug 2024 on Facebook with title “With the Altair GPCAM 130M. Plenty newton rings” Kirtsunegari posted in StarGazersLounge some animated gifs showing what you likely see when you look at live data, and what the software has to guess at when trying to separate the “really on the sun” things
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Correlations of matter, magnetism, and electromagnetism on the sun

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun August 14, 2024

Thank you for the clear explanation. It seems there is a measure of choice and artistry involved. I looked just now and hte Neptune M is a Sony IMX178 sensor, I have two of those that are mono/color. packaged as ZWO. I only use them to look at the noise, I have about 40 cameras
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Solar Photography group on Facebook – comments

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun August 13, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=2820285491471176 Is the reason it is white at the edges, because the many colors are mixed, looking through deeper stretches of solar atmosphere? Can you give particulars of lenses, camera, settings, exposure, filters, post-processing, software? I just joined this group and have not had time to look around. I have been following space based and
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Remote and non-destructive indicators for trees at risk of cracking

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Global Open Resources August 8, 2024

Forest Research @Forest_Research Stem cracks are defects in firs and conifers. Affected timber isn’t suitable for structural uses, reducing value. We’re researching this. Snr Scientist Ruben Manso explains why and asks forestry professionals to report cracks using TreeAlert. 🔗 https://forestresearch.gov.uk/news/139764-stem-cracks-in-conifers-report-it-via-treealert/ https://pic.x.com/kabfzsdnse Replying to @Forest_Research I carved wood for several decades and my first thought seeing
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Using ZnSe and GaAS lenses with Sony Starvis and similar detectors at high gain and frame rates for machine vision applications

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras July 10, 2024

To: Fuzhou Hundreds Optics Inc 100Optics.com, Some very low light and NIR sensors might be able to pick up LWIR, out to thermal wavelengths 5-15 microns — if they used ZnSe lenses or GaAs. You could check pretty easily. I think the Sony Starvis might work but would need to use statistical methods and high
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Sony Starvis and IMX715 and thermal small pixel methods

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, All Sky Cameras July 7, 2024

I came across a ZWO ASI715MC recently and bought one to check out. But they are NOT into machine vision or security, since their chosen market is astronomers. Over the years I see Sony doing innovative things, but finding a stable development environment is difficult. Perhaps working directly with Sony would be more productive, fundamental
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You only get one lifetime, do the best you can in your allotted time

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, All Sky Cameras May 26, 2024

Aakash Gupta @aakashg0 4 harsh truths I realized too late as a PM: 1. It’s more important to have massive impact than be liked 2. Most colleagues don’t like that you are the decision-maker 3. Most PM jobs are 60 hours, not 40 4. The more responsive, the better Replying to @aakashg0 You only get
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Black hole volumes, densities, room for many stable orbits

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Sky Cameras May 16, 2024

Global Data: Black Hole Size in Perspective at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkO9YbOOll4 Thank you for that. But suggest you add the big bang region as well. It is essentially an open black hole. Look at the volume per solar mass of each of these you listed. A region can be unconsolidated and still be “black” trapping light. My
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