(meteorobs) real-time Draconid flux display

[Alex SV1NZX]

Hello Sirko and all

Great tool and i hope the weather cooperates.
Expecting clear skies on the weekend here in S. France - In Greece, where i
was heading this weekend, its cloudy until tue-wed so anyone who was
planning a trip to Thira (Santorini) may be disappointed..

Will be monitoring with meteor scatter on the 2m band

Clear skies all and good luck for the weekend !

Best regards,
Alex (F/SV1NZX)

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:42 PM, sirko at molau.de <sirko at molau.de> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> members of the IMO Video Meteor Network will try a unique experiment to
> provide you with a REAL real-time Draconid flux display. In the next few
> days, you can check for the current Draconid activity at
>
> http://www.imonet.org/draconids/
>
> without a delay of hours or days. Up to 20 cameras based in central
> europe will try to upstream their observations, and the flux graph given
> above will be updated every two minutes. If you leave the browser window
> open, it will automatically refresh every five minutes.
>
> Note, that this is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, and there are many reasons why
> the experiment may fail:
>
> * most cameras are expecting poor weather, as the favourite weather
> conditions we experienced in the last two weeks in Central Europe, are
> over just in time :(
>
> * the data are uploaded automatically as is (i.e. there is no manual
> quality check) and the observing conditions are complicated with moonlit
> skies. So a single camera that runs "mad" may waste the whole flux display
>
> * the chosen parameter set may be suboptimal for the (unknown) Draconid
> activity. Maybe there is too much averaging, maybe the graph has too
> high resolution and shows strong scatter?
>
> * the current VMO infrastructure is not intended to serve frequent web
> accesses. We try to circumvent the problem by caching the graphs at the
> above URL, but we have no idea whether this will really work out or
> whether the whole systems crashed because of high load.
>
> As we will try to observe the Draconids ourselve, there is no one who
> will have a look at the system and fix any problem that may occur
>
> Even given all these imponderables we believe the Draconids are worth a
> trial, and want to offer you this service. At least, we hope to gain
> experience with such a real-time flux monitor for future compaigns.
>
> Knock on wood!
> Sirko
>
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