Category: Internet Best Practices

Comment on Lucky Imaging and global telescope networks

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 18, 2021

£700 vs £7,000,000: Astrophotography Shoot Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCyC3_YIME Ryan Fay? Your link in the description is broken (luckyimage) should probably be https://www.astrobiscuit.com/deepspaceluckyimaging There are better ways to combine images from many different sensors. You talked about hundreds?, thousands?, millions?, billions? of people combining images to improve earth surface imaging. Take the human out of the loop.
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Comment on String Data Structures Question – Purpose and Meaning

Richard K Collins Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 16, 2021

Strings are just one example of the larger problem of sequences and patterns (any dimensions). This morning, I am just surveying the Internet for rock types and measurements used in geochemistry. There are many methods and representations. Does the student like to explore, to gather, to find general patterns, to share what they have found,
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Broken Links on virgo-gw.eu and lack of Internet strategy for gravitation

Richard K Collins Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 13, 2021

Hello, I was at https://www.virgo-gw.eu/#about and clicked on “Click here for more information on the Virgo experiment and its science.” to find that the link is broken. “page not found” “There is no offer for the moment, stay tuned” I am looking at the O3a data at https://www.gw-openscience.org/archive/links/O3a_16KHZ_R1/V1/1238166018/1253977218/simple/ I can download it and read it
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Feedback to Hotjar at iopscience.iop.org Is there anything more we could do

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 13, 2021

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e Dear HotJar and IOP Readers, Your questions are too specific. I came here because of a search on Google for gravitational waves software, particularly how the signal on the two arms of each detector is extracted from the single interference strain data. Now your articles are all in text and pictures, so I have
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Trying to suggest better ways to use live webcams, Contact Form limited

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 6, 2021

WMAC Trentham Camera 1 Live Stream I came across your live webcam at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYnPVzwYbk Wellington Model Aeroplane Club, Radio control aircraft and multirotors (drones) at https://wmac.org.nz/ Please put a link to your organization below in the description. Also tilt the camera up and show the sky not that roof. It is OK to have tilt.
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Comment on Live YouTube video of Meteor echoes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices June 2, 2021

LIVE Radio Meteor Echoes Stream from Scotland Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNkjWkpOdE Should it say “MegaHertz”? not “Hz” Just searching for “radio meteor echoes” I see 60 MHz and 50 MHz. 3.5 MHz, 29 MHz, 1300 MHz, 1.98 MHz, 143.05 MHz. Seems like “it depends” but no one has written it down in a concise rule book.
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Comment on Houston Astronomical Society Star Parties – Elon Musk All Sky Cameras

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, GravityNotes, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 2, 2021

Steve and Amelia Goldberg, If Houston Astronomical Society (HAS) would share recordings online, then star parties can be continuous and world wide. Soon, in human terms, there will be people observing from the far side of the moon and from Mars. So I hope Houston Astronomical Society will be a world leader in online community
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Archiving and Sharing lossless sky data for all the people on earth

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working June 2, 2021

Dominic, I spoke to Chuck Allen, vice president of the Astronomical League, yesterday — https://www.astroleague.org/al/general/contact.html “The Astronomical League is composed of over two hundred and forty (280 now) local amateur astronomical societies from all across the United States.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_League (pretty thin description) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_societies We talked almost an hour about the growth of Internet sharing (I
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Thank you to Jonathan at Bangor University for Reference Image

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 30, 2021

The Grid: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/regular-grid-random-colours.png Jonanthan, Bangor University: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/cy/project-rainbow/create-a-coloured-grid-in-processing/ Jonathan, Thank you. I was working on a simple camera calibration and needed a good target. Your random colored grid made a great clear image. Correcting the camera colors, positions and intensities is much easier with a quantitative reference. The only suggestion I have is to also have the Javascript
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Comment on Facebook Allsky Camera group site

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 Do you know of even one allsky camera on the Internet that shares live lossless images? And archives lossless images for stacking, research, correlations? The usual photos of stars and planets on the Internet are in jpg, or compressed video, so the pixels are not real pixels. The location and properties of the camera
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