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Note about why I built Sculptor.Org

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Web Policies Internet Polices July 9, 2021

J, I talked to my sister, T, yesterday. She is one who has painted all her life. Maybe she will have time and space to do it again. For ten years, about 20 hours a week, back from about 1993 to 2003, I ran a website for sculptors. At the end it had 50,000 unique
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Note to a dark sky site about renting cameras with telescopes and all sky needs of the world

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working July 4, 2021

I picked this because your example was “start at $600 per year”. But I have no idea what this does. Throwing a bunch of jargon at me means nothing. That picture of the equipment looks like a jumble of wires and objects. Can you see all parts of the sky? Does it run continuously? How
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Comment on Pictor Open Source Radio Telescope – Recommendations

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working July 2, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70plmWJDt2k Open Source: https://github.com/0xCoto/PICTOR Website: https://www.pictortelescope.com/ Please leave the settings and all form fields. Don’t clear them. Just leave them the same as the last observation.  I am having to re-enter them ever time I make a request.  I am making series of requests.  Many people might.  Tell them how many files they will receive, how many
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All sky cameras online should use lossless format and share with cities and schools and groups

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working July 2, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 I tracked down your allsky camera images. When will people realize that jpg is a lossy format and that the pixels are not true representations of the intensities and colors of small regions. I call it “eye candy”, only suitable for eyeballs, or the truly desperate who have nothing else. Please ask him to
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NANOGrav raw observing data – merging all global sensor networks on the Internet

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 30, 2021

Hello, I was visiting https://data.nanograv.org/ to see what kind of data you are sharing online.  I am tracking most all the sensor networks on the Internet, especially the emerging ones. If I understand this talk by Steve Taylor at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UptA7pkARo you are only observing at widely separated times for about 30 minutes? He talks about
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Is anyone doing continuous quantum measurements? Are you picking up gravity, seismic, magnetic, ELF and other noise?

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Radiation Channels, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 26, 2021

As the quantum detectors get more sensitivity they should be picking up fluctuations in the local gravitational potential and electromagnetic background fields of the earth. But I have not seen anyone running a detector continuously for the days or weeks or months needed to do the required correlations to trace things out. Nor, do I
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Explaining to MathWorks about Infinite Levels of Knowledge and Hover

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, HoverBoxes HoverCards, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 24, 2021

Jordan, Image Acquisition Toolbox: Your online, and now the attached price list, is not appropriate for “Home” users. Today someone fixed the website issue where the license information was not accessible.  I could not open my account information. Now, when I look at my account information, “Manage Products”, it has  “But Add-Ons” as a working
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Comment to Allsky Camera Facebook group about context and daytime uses of cameras

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 20, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696/permalink/877591389495080/ I am looking at daytime uses of all sky cameras. Satellite images are a bit too bulky and not enough resolution for correlations. Need multiple cameras to recover 3D of clouds. I have seen groups aiming at comets, planes, clouds, rain, sky color, daytime astronomy (is possible), sun and moon tracking, shadows, reflections, multispectral,
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Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment – website status?

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 19, 2021

Robin, Haje, I am looking at global sensor networks, and got to magnetotelluric arrays.  For background I was reading about natural signals that can be used for calibration and reference and came to http://ampere.jhuapl.edu/index.html To be explicit, I was at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current and clicked on the link to Project Ampere that took me to https://web.archive.org/web/20050211120508/http://dysprosium.jhuapl.edu/  Then
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