Saturday, December 12, 2020
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Arecibo Observatory - drone and ground view during the collapse & pre-collapse historical footage
[video & text: National Science Foundation]
"This video, that starts with a view of the top of Tower 4, was taken from the vantage point of an Arecibo Observatory drone, utilized for monitoring the condition of Tower 4 support cables. Four cables are seen in the center of this video. The top cable does not support the telescope platform, but instead supports the catwalk described in the narrative for the previous video. The three lower cables are, from left to right, M4-1, M4-2, and M4-3. Note that a number of individual wire strands of the M4-1 and M4-2 cables are noticeably broken at the beginning of this video. The M4-3 cable does not appear to have any broken wires at the beginning of this video. The first indication of the coming failure is the breaking of another M4-2 wire, accompanied by a puff of "smoke" and chips of paint flying away from the surface of the cable. Four seconds later the entire M4-2 cable appears to disintegrate. The failure of M4-2 is followed a fraction of a second later by the demise of M4-1, followed a fraction of a second later by the failure of M4-3. The drone operator then swings the drone around to view the reflector dish and fallen platform, azimuth arm, Gregorian dome and the falling cables and catwalk. The top section of Towe 12, near the Visitor Center, can be seen tumbling down the hill to the left of the operations building. The Tower 12 backstay cables that connect the top of Tower 12 to the ground cause damage behind Tower 12, well away from the edge of the telescope dish."
Friday, December 11, 2020
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FalconCam Project - ledge camera LIVE
Some time in the middle of 2007 we noticed that a pair of peregrine falcons, relatively rare around the Central West of New South Wales, were interested in using Charles Sturt University’s Orange campus as a hunting ground. Ian Grange, a member of staff, suggested we mount a roosting box high up in the water tower, on the south window to encourage the raptors to hang around. They took to the box very quickly and no end of carnage was brought in to consume.
o IP cameras were located and mounted – one inside the box above the floor and the other one up high overlooking the ledge and their flight approach.
Since then we’ve been receiving brilliant close-up footage and experiences from our new acquaintances with every intention of making our coverage and data available to the world. We’ve come to know the adult pair well now and consider them a part of campus. Not often anyone can get this close to such amazing raptors!
As an addendum to the above paragraph, we’ve now upgraded both our eyrie-based cameras to high-definition models from Axis (via Lan1 and CCTV Hire) and they’re providing us with superb, world-class imagery and footage, which we can share with the world. We utilise PoE (Power Over Ethernet) technology to reduce the number of cables running around the room next to the box itself and are able to piggyback on the high-speed CSU network for connectivity.
Thank you for visiting, and supporting FalconCam Project.
Ian, Cilla, Scott & Ron