The timelapse videos from these cameras
quickly became popular among staff on the
mountain and the public alike. After a com-
parative study of as many alternatives as
we could manage, we decided to adopt the
same technology for Gemini’s Base Facility
Operations project. With a view to maximize
coverage, we set up five cameras: one points
up, three face a cardinal direction (covering
north, west, and south) and one points to-
wards Hilo (rather than due east, to better
pick up approaching fog which often comes
upon us from that direction).
You can access the most recent 30 minutes
of the cloud cams here.
And the f/stoppers article is linked here (at
the time of writing).
All-night videos from the different cloud-
cams are posted here.
Finally, for a view of the southern sky from
Gemini South, check the all-night archive
here.
These cameras are in use every night when
we are open for observing, and provide ob-
servers with the information they need. In
addition, they also catch many interesting
phenomena — natural and otherwise —
and we fairly frequently receive requests for
images when there has been, for example,
extreme weather. Recently, fstoppers.com
— a news site for photographers — ran an
article with the byline “This May Be the Most
Awesome Camera on the Internet”!
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