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MikeRushford@gmail.com

20 yr story in 5 minutes

• Telescope making, SHS and Stellfane• AAS degree optic and LLNL• LLNL to BS physics UCD to MS optics

UOA back to LLNL, McMath telescope• Computers TVS marriage and grandson• AOL robot telescope discussion, UCLA• BBS swap meets LLNL Laser Guide star• Sky and Telescope on to the internet

Solar viewing party

Valley of the Moon club visits

Control methods

Robotic Solar Observatory, Eyes on the Skies.Mike Rushford's robotic solar observatory and BBS system have moved. They are now no longer accessible via the old dialup line. They are now accessible via the World Wide Web (http://www.hooked.net/~tvs/eyes/ or the "Eyes on the Skies " link on our homepage). The telescope can now be controlled from anywhere in the world over the internet for free. It's pretty sunny these days, so you can get out there and do some solar observing without having to get out there. It is the perfect activity while sitting in front of your computer at work and looking busy. http://www.trivalleystargazers.org/newsletter/1997/jun97pf.html

• TALKS, PAPERS and AWARDS.• Original thoughts discussed on AOL astronomy forum 1991-2-3? • Local club of BBS sysops 1994. • TVS two talks 1994-1995. • Astroimage 95• Eastbay Astronomical Society At Chabot Observatory Oakland, California • Sky and Telescope Sept 1995 • Electronic CCD imaging at the Lawrence Hall of Sciences. • East Bay Astronomical club 1996. • RTMC 1996 convention. • Local news paper "HERALD" Sunday March 23 1997 • AstroImage 97 The great flood washout on HW5• IAPPP-CCD 98 • Griffith Observatory  Star award• August 25 1998 (eyes on the skies) on INTERNET TONIGHT tonight The archive of the event is here. • January 26, 1999 talk for the Mount Diablo Astronomical Society 510-672-7219. • MARCH 3 1999 talk at (21) The "Eye on the Sky" Robotics Solar Telescope and It's GNU Linux Connections

Here is a link to the paper. • August 12 1999 talk at LinuxWorld The "Eye on the Sky" Robotics Solar Telescope • Feb 14th 2001 Gave a talk at the Hopkins Planatarium in Freemont • Feb 24th 2001 Took part in the Robo Expo at the Chabot Space&Science center

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun • The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Sun has a diameter of about

1,392,000 kilometers (865,000 mi) (about 109 Earths), and by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of the planets (including Earth), asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust in orbit.[9] About three-quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while most of the rest is helium. Less than 2% consists of other elements, including iron, oxygen, carbon, neon, and others.[10]

• The mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is approximately 149.6 million kilometers (1 AU), though this varies as the Earth moves from perihelion in January to aphelion in July.[20]At this average distance, light travels from the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds. The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis,[21]and drives Earth's climate and weather. The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since pre-historic times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. An accurate scientific understanding of the Sun developed slowly, and as recently as the 19th century prominent scientists had little knowledge of the Sun's physical composition and source of energy. This understanding is still developing; there are a number of present-day anomalies in the Sun's behavior that remain unexplained.

Netflix :: Wild China Ep 2Sun bird

laser fusion The principle of nuclear fusionThe energy of every shining star in the universe, including our Sun, is supplied by nuclear fusion – which is said to be a major energy source in the future.When two atomic nuclei are forced into close proximity, nuclear attraction force overcomes the electrostatic repellent force (Coulomb force), and the two nuclei fuse into one nucleus. This reaction is called “nuclear fusion.”

http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/index.html

There are many mysteries about sunspots still to be solved. As stellar physicist David Dearborn notes, "Scientists love mysteries. When you solve something, then it becomes a lot less interesting, and you go find another question to ask."

Today, scientists use cameras mounted on powerful telescopes to take pictures of the sun's surface magnified hundreds of times, revealing detail that scientists of Galileo's time would have found wonderful. But scientists are still trying to find even better ways to study the sun, equipping telescopes with various filters that capture nonvisible parts of the sun's emission, such as x-rays and magnetic fields. This section will look at how these new methods for examining the sun are changing our understanding of sunspots. In addition, this section will explore the sunspot cycle, and the known and possible effects sunspots have on earth.

What Is a Sunspot?According to George Fischer, a solar astronomer at the University of California, "A sunspot is a dark part of the sun's surface that is cooler than the surrounding area, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. It turns out it is cooler because of a strong magnetic field there that inhibits the transport of heat via convective motion in the sun. The magnetic field is formed below the sun's surface, and extends out into the sun's corona."

http://www.solarcycle24.com/

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/index.html#sdo-launch

• September 29, 2009

Cosmic Ray Activity at Space Age High In 2009, the intensities of galactic cosmic rays have increased 19% over the highest seen in the last 50 years. The main cause is the deep solar minimum which was first observed around 2007 and continues today. When solar activity decreases, the Sun's magnetic field is weakend, and provides less protection against the charged, high-energy cosmic particles (mainly protons), so more of them are able to reach the inner solar system. Cosmic rays can pose a radiation hazard for astronauts and satellites.

• Read more...

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Comparison of DayStar and Coronado H-a Solar Filters with Spectrohelioscopes

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Comparison of performance for different passbands1.0A passband, faint details not seen, brighter and darker details seen with difficulty.0.9A passband, faint plage and filaments not seen, brighter and darker details barely seen.0.8A passband, faint detail as plage or flare not easy to see, all stronger details easy to see.0.7A passband, faint detail will be seen easily, also all other stuff easy.0.6 and 0.5A passband, faint detail and all other stuff ok.

http://astrosurf.com/spectrohelio/index-en

http://www.eyes-on-the-skies.org/shs/

http://www.optcorp.com/product.aspx?pid=471-306-11610&tb=3

Solar filter links

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/luntsolar• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle • http://www.solarobserving.com/filters.htm• http://www.hydrogenalpha.com/• http://216.92.113.163/item.php?item_id=64• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8POHkMQg0Dw

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20100121/

• Warmer surface temperatures also tend to occur during particularly active parts of the solar cycle, known as solar maximums, while slightly cooler temperatures occur during lulls in activity, called minimums.

• A deep solar minimum has made sunspots a rarity in the last few years. Such lulls in solar activity, which can cause the total amount of energy given off by the Sun to decrease by about a tenth of a percent, typically spur surface temperature to dip slightly. Overall, solar minimums and maximums are thought to produce no more than 0.1°C (0.18°F) of cooling or warming.

• "In 2009, it was clear that even the deepest solar minimum in the period of satellite data hasn't stopped global warming from continuing," said Hansen.

Global Energy Perspective http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html

• The last renewable resource to consider is solar energy. The solar constant is• 1.76x105 TW, hence, there is ample solar energy potential. Solar energy is, in fact,

the• only renewable resource that has enough terrestrial energy potential to satisfy a 10-• 20 TW carbon-free supply constraint in 2050. From the 1.2x105 TW of solar energy• that strikes the earth’s surface, a practical siting-constrained terrestrial global solar

power• potential value is about 600 TW. The numbers range from very conservative

estimates of• 50 TW to optimistic estimates of 1500 TW, depending on the land fraction devoted to• power generation. A good number to use for onshore power generation potential is• probably 600 TW. Thus, for a 10% efficient solar farm, at least 60 TW of power could• be supplied from terrestrial solar energy resources. For calibration,

photosynthesis• currently supplies 90 TW globally to make the biosphere run,

so the amount of power• available from the sun is very large number by any measure.

The Lewis GroupDivision of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of TechnologyNate Lewis I will mostly focus on energy supply, as opposed to demand issues, although of

course supply and demand cannot be fully separated.

Solar Land Area Requirementshttp://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html

3 TW

Photovoltaic + Electrolyzer Systemhttp://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html

How to bank solar energy?

Fuel Cell vs Photoelectrolysis CellEfficient Solar Water SplittingSolar-Powered Catalysts for Fuel Formation

www.skyfuel.com

http://www.reflectechsolar.com/

http://www.sunpower.com/

http://www.generalcompression.com/

SUN-500G 500W Grid Tie Inverter 24-52V DC input 90-130 AC outputPeak Inverter Efficiency 92%Standby Power consumption<0.5W

Basically, regardless of what you’ve heard, there is no shortage of energy on planet Earth. Those who say there is have forgotten about that little brilliant yellow ball overhead. That’s right, Mr. Sun.

MIT Develops Way to Bank Solar Energy at HomeDuring photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to break water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms and later on the atoms recombine and produce energy. MIT scientists have tried to duplicate this method of plants to store sun’s energy.The main constituent in Nocera and Kanan’s procedure is a new catalyst that generates oxygen gas from water and another catalyst produces hydrogen

gas. The catalysts are cobalt and platinum. 

http://www.zaphu.com/2008/05/22/energy-crisis-what-energy-crisis/

Wind is a solar energy bank

Honeywell WT6000 wind turbine sold by EarthTronics 

energy cost associated with an internet transaction • Source http://www.luxpop.com/calc_v15.pl?OpCode=-150

•  Getting information over the internet may be much cheaper than (say) physically driving to a library and getting a book that had to be transported there, but there still is a cost. In order to identify ways to reduce energy consumption, it is important to understand what the energy cost of our actions is. 

• Hosting cost is thus: 2e-5 X 12 Watts X 24 hrs/day /500 hits per day = 1.152e-5 kWh per hit  • the variable energy required per 25000 bits over the last mile is: 

   25000 bits X 1.05 X 4e-10 sec X 10 mW (opt) X 3.22 mW/mW = 3.381e-04 Joules = 9.392e-11 kWh • Fixed "cost assumption: Point of presence (POP) unit consuming 200W, feeding 24 subscribers (no ref yet)==> consumes 0.2 kWh per

subscriber per day. This must be amortized over total daily consumption. Assuming one page download represents 0.1% of total daily usage, this represents 0.1 kWh X 0.1% = 1.00e-04 kWh for POP electronic equipment cost 

• Last mile cost for transmission of one page is thus the sum of the two, or approx 1.00e-04 kWh 

• http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cost.html • • 100 watts x 24 hours/day x 30.5 days/month = 73,200 Total Watt-hours/month• • 73,200 Wh/month / 1000 = 73 kWh/month• • 73 kWh/month x 15¢/kWh = $11/month.; $132/yr.

• References: [1] http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/revisions/downloads/computer/ReducingPCPowerConsumption.pdf, [2] http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=energy_awareness.bus_energy_use#commercial, [3] http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/overhead/, [4] http://www.cel.com/pdf/datasheets/NX5315EH.pdf. 

• http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-internet.php

• Most computers create 40-80 grams of greenhouse gas emissions per hour

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html

How to track sun not chart?

Fred and Leonard

In the attached image you can see the sun and stars behind it, using the program at this link;http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download

So I am wondering if the real sun could be blocked dimmer to to enable us to see some stars near the sun limb.

What I am wondering is how dark is the sun image when viewed on the Sodium line center?

If solar image intensity could be dropped many order of magnitude there might be some stars, FAR away so that the sodium line center is shifted red of the solar absorption line center, thus if such is the case for a select few stars might we see them in a SHS?

Thoughts or know if anyone has given this some thought already know of a paper?

Mike

http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download

Got this program changed so solar rotation animation was correct direction.

• The following issue has been RESOLVED. ====================================================================== http://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=574 ====================================================================== Reported By: Michael C Rushford Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: SkyChart Issue ID: 574 Category: 1-Software Reproducibility: have not tried Severity: tweak Priority: normal Status: resolved Target Version: 3.2 Resolution: fixed Fixed in Version: 3.1 SVN ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 10-02-11 16:13 CET Last Modified: 10-02-28 13:08 CET ====================================================================== Summary: Sun image rotation wrong sign Description: Sun spots rotate from left to right when viewing the real sun in the sky when north is up. The program does the reverse. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0001046) Patrick Chevalley (administrator) - 10-02-28 13:08 http://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=574#c1046 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed by revision 1307: http://svn.origo.ethz.ch/viewvc/skychart?view=rev&revision=1307 Available with tomorrow snapshot at http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/development_version Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 10-02-11 16:13 Michael C RushfordNew Issue 10-02-28 13:08 Patrick ChevalleyNote Added: 0001046 10-02-28 13:08 Patrick ChevalleyStatus new => resolved 10-02-28 13:08 Patrick ChevalleyResolution open => fixed 10-02-28 13:08 Patrick ChevalleyFixed in Version => 3.1 SVN 10-02-28 13:08 Patrick ChevalleyTarget Version => 3.2 ======================================================================

http://ascom-standards.org/http://www.cyanogen.com/help/maximdl/ASCOM_Hubs.htm

http://www.cyanogen.com/help/maximdl/ASCOM_Hubs.htm

• ASCOM Hubs• ASCOM Hubs allow you to share the

control of a single piece of equipment among several programs. They can also be used as "middleware", to provide additional functionality not available in the individual programs or drivers.

• A simple example is multiple applications sharing one telescope, as follows:

http://www.siderealtechnology.com/http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/BBAstroDesigns.html

http://siderealtechnology.com/dangray.htmYahoo SiTechservo Group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SiTechservo/

•Using this controller, you can control your telescope with:

* Stand Alone (Tracking Only)•

* ASCOM compatible Advanced Telescope Control Software, by Dan Gray, with Telescope Modeling by Dave Rowe 

• * ScopeII from BBAstroDesigns• * Argo Navis(tm)• * Sky Commander

• 4. Much lower current during tracking. Batteries will last much longer.

•5. No resonant frequency's to battle.

•

internet control to be demonstrated

• A SiTech mount can be used in a totally remote location, with internet control of the mount and cameras from another city, state, or country. This is a much more elaborate installation, requiring a fixed observatory, additional software and equipment, and probably on site personnel to maintain or reset the equipment. This scenario is very possible with SiTech; however it also requires more equipment and software that is beyond the scope of this manual, so we won‟t go into detail here.

Computer that uses less than 10 watts..

Razdow Telescope & LLNL• Razdow Telescope• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia• Jump to: navigation, search• Razdow Laboratories, Inc. was founded by Austrian born physicist Dr.

Adolph Razdow (1908 - 1985). A refugee of the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States in July of 1946. In the early 1960s Razdow was awarded a contract by NASA to develop and deploy a series of solar monitoring telescopes at major observatories around the globe. These devices automatically tracked the sun across the sky, recording and transmitting television images of the solar disk in the Hydrogen-alpha spectrum. NASA Astronauts, which would soon be traversing the space around the earth would be vulnerable to radiation storms caused by solar flares, and these telescopes were commissioned to provide a 24 hour watch on solar activity. A few of these telescopes are still in operation.[1]

• [edit] References• ^ http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/ftpsi-boulder.html

Solar Physics 10 (1969) 502-510; 9 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht- Holland

The optical telescopes (Figure 3) have 110 mm objectives with focal lengths of1876 mm. The hydrogen-alpha line is selected by a birefringent Lyot-type filter with a 0.5 A passband. During Apollo missions, the telescopes are manned by visual observers; for routine patrol, the data are recorded on 35 mm fihn every 10 sec from approximately 1 hr after sunrise to approximately 1 hr before sunset. Each telescope is equipped with a video camera which provides a real-time display. In addition, aneyepiece camera is provided for recording interesting activity for immediate processingand inspection.

Two observatories, located atBoulder, Colorado, U.S.A., and Culgoora, Australia, are operated for NASA bythe Environmental Sciences Services Administration (ESSA). The other two observatories,located at Teheran, Iran, and Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A., are operated forNASA by the Air Weather Service of the U.S. Air Force. Except for the Teheran andHawaii stations, all the observatories have been in operation throughout 1968; results of the optical flare patrol are routinely reported in the ESSA Solar GeophysicalData publication. During 1968, SPAN detected about 70 percent of the total internationallist of flares, as published in this report. The addition of the Teheran andHawaii observatories is expected to increase the percentage of flares detected bySpAN to about 90 percent. The coverage of the seven SPAN observatories is shownin Figure 1.

RAZDOW solar telescope @ LLNL

Subject: Looking for telescope informationDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:07:23 -0700From: Larry Combs <Larry.Combs@noaa.gov>To: mikerushford@gmail.comCC: Ed Erwin <Edward.H.Erwin@noaa.gov>

Dear Mike, The images you provided are of the RAZDOW solar telescope. These instruments were originally purchased by NASA and provided to NOAA in the 1960's. Boulder's RAZADOW was installed in 1967. A little history, watching the sun in the 1960’s was the job of the SDL/ITSA Space Disturbance Forecast Center (today it is the forecast center of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center) in Boulder, Colorado. The SDFC was tasked to provide daily solar geophysical forecasts, warnings and alerts of solar activity. This was also the early days of NASA and ESSA implementing the first stages of solar proton warning systems to alert on onset of potentially hazardous solar particles (which would become direct space environment support for Apollo missions around 1971). To accomplish this task the SDFC started 24-hour/7-day operations in 1966 and staffed the center with forecasters, observers, and communication operators. By 1968 a Global Solar Particle Alert Network (SPAN) was established (using the RAZDOW solar telescope) composed of SPAN, U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service, national and international observatories to aid in this endeavor. The RAZDOW company went out of business in the late 1980's. Some of these telescopes were later loaned out to various research institutions for use in monitoring solar activity. One of the last loan agreements I could find was with the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, INC. Research and Development Division signed by a W.J. Jaynes, Contract Administration dated 22 April 1994. I hope this helps. If I can be of further assistance please let me know.

Regards Larry Combs Space Weather Forecaster NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center 325 Broadway W/NP9 Boulder, CO 80305 phone 303-497-5299 larry.combs@noaa.gov --------

Original Message -------- Subject: Looking for telescope information Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:25 -0800 From: Mike Rushford <mikerushford@gmail.com> To: Edward.H.Erwin@noaa.gov, Mike Rushford <rushford1@llnl.gov>

Dear Sir; Would you know anyone who has information about the telescope shown in the attached images? The telescope is at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and the person who place it here is deceased so much history and maybe some hardware and operational knowledge is missing. Thanks for any leads. Mike Rushford 925-424-6349

The Halle-Lyot-Ohman type filter

http://www.astro.ro/instruments.htm

http://gong.nso.edu/info/fact_sheet.html

http://gong.nso.edu/instrument/

Chabot solar• -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Solar observing over the weekend....Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010

08:59:27 -0800From: Terry Galloway <terryg2@ix.netcom.com>To: Ferreira, Jim <ferreira1@llnl.gov>CC: Fred Schumacher <starxplror@comcast.net>, "(pplafootes@comcast.net)" <pplafootes@comcast.net>, "Rushford, Michael C." <Rushford1@llnl.gov>, Celeste Burrows <celesteburrows@sbcglobal.net>, Ben Burress <BBurress@ChabotSpace.org>

We really would like to do these kind of videos regularly at Chabot as the interest in the Sun is definitely growing with the public.  WE have lines on Sunday for the Sunspotter, the Coronado-70, and the Fraunhofer spectroscope.  The visitors all ask about how the sun's surface is changing in time.  Some go see a show and come back in an hour or two and exclaim that the shapes of the prominences have changed a lot.  Also lots of discussion about the sun using Ben's great spiral books of graphics.  We also do the gas discharge tube spectral lines with the grating glasses and everybody loves that experience too.

• Wow, I sure wish Chabot would proceed with the LaPalma Vacuum Solar Telescope  installation while we still have the Meas. G money left.  This would be such a huge draw.  Can you just imagine what a 20" refractor with a 78 ft prime focus can do?

• Next time, Jim, you are up at Chabot, let's go look at all the refractors we have and some equatorial mounted long focal Cass reflectors to see if any can work with the Lunt filter.  Chabot has a video camera.

•---Terry

•

Ferreira, Jim http://www.lafterhall.com/astro.html • http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/mpons/solaradsor.htm• http://nsosp.nso.edu/VIDEOIMG/isoon/latest_h.jpg

• Subject: 45 minutes of sun....Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:27:25 -0800From: Ferreira, Jim <ferreira1@llnl.gov>To: Rushford, Michael C. <Rushford1@llnl.gov>

Had a 45 minute window of broken clouds on Sunday.  AR11045 is totally awesome!

•  • http://www.lafterhall.com/ha_ar11045_filament_07feb10_001.jpg•  • http://www.lafterhall.com/ha_prom_07feb10_001.jpg•  • http://www.lafterhall.com/ha_ar11045_seq_07feb10_101.jpg•  • Jim

http://www.lafterhall.com/halpha_sun.html

• On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Ferreira, Jim wrote:•

What I find particularly exciting is I can see some of the phenomena described in the literature.  Looking for, and seeing Doppler effect in filaments and prominences, and being able to resolve, at least up to a point, spicules on the limb is most rewarding.  The chromosphere is so dynamic.  Completely different experience from observing the moon and planets, even the sun in white light.

•  • 20 years, even 10 years ago, viewing the sun in this manner seemed out of reach because of the expense of Ha equipment.  It’s still not cheap, but at

least now we mere mortals can at least get a foot in the door.•  • I do need to point out that the video camera makes all the difference in observing with the 50mm filter.  The view through the eyepiece is interesting at

low magnification, but difficult at higher magnification because the image dims considerably.  The more sensitive video camera, on the other hand, allows far better views and can capture fine structure not easily visible or totally invisible in the eyepiece.  Video also provides an efficient means of comparing chromospheric features on and off the Ha line, since most feature variations tend to be subtle.

•  • My main intent going into Ha solar is to produce time lapse videos of prominences.   Active prom action over the weekend was nill, but I shot about 25

minutes of video at 1 minute intervals and am now working out the processing, combining and mode of presentation – probably an animated GIF for starters.

•  • Having some kind of good time now.• Jim•  •  • From: starxplror@comcast.net [mailto:starxplror@comcast.net] 

Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:44 AMTo: Ferreira, JimCc: (pplafootes@comcast.net); Rushford, Michael C.Subject: Re: Solar observing over the weekend....

•  • The image quality, given the size of the aperature is simply amazing.•  • Thanks,• Fred

cd D:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin then rgb3toppm.exe d:\sda0\r.pgm d:\sda0\g.pgm d:\sda0\b.pgm >d:\sda0\c.ppm

Combine Jim’s imagesEach grayScale imageR,G,B over lineCenter into thisRGB Image.

cd D:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin then rgb3toppm.exe d:\sda0\b.pgm d:\sda0\g.pgm d:\sda0\r.pgm >d:\sda0\bgr.ppm

Combine Jim’s imagesEach grayScale imageB,G,R over lineCenter into thisRGB Image.

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• http://www.aviosys.com/ippower9212.htm

• http://www.aviosys.com/ipvideo9310.htm

• http://acp.dc3.com/index2.html

• http://www.linuxastronomy.org/

http://nsosp.nso.edu/VIDEOIMG/

isoon/latest_h.jpg

http://www.spacew.com/sunnow/

Natures challenges to keeping a robotic internet accessible observatory operating.

http://weeklyrot.wordpress.com/2008/08/

Internet connectivity slow and fails, so go out take a look around in the observatory.

See ants on the wall warts running internet parts.

Left Obs door open, return home get camera return find fewer ants take picture.

Close door return home get bug spray, apply on problem and around outside observatory. Go out for dinner 2hr.

Research on internet after dinner web working fine, discover ants that eat electronics in Tx at above link they say the following:

“The ants can’t actually eat the wires inside electronics. Only leafcutter ants can do that, and they don’t care for electronics. Instead, the Crazy Rasberry ants chew on the softer insulation around the wires, causing electrical shorts. The live wire then electrocutes the ant. It releases a chemical alarm pheromone that attracts its nestmates, who further attack the wires. The buildup of dead worker ants continue to hinder the electronics.“http://weeklyrot.wordpress.com/2008/08/

lightning strikes are rare; power outages and brownouts are common

Now LiveSharing without travelhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/.astronomy

Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action around the blast site

in 10xHDTV resolution: spaceweather.com

• http://spaceweather.com/swpod2010/25may10/ipad/ipad/filament171.m4v?PHPSESSID=pdnhif5qujn9e3j9ncpo681125

• http://spaceweather.com/images2010/24may10/cme_c3_big.gif?PHPSESSID=pdnhif5qujn9e3j9ncpo681125