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International Space Station HD Livestream
- sbarre 13y ago480p is not HD (is it?) (edit: this is still awesome, was just expecting 720 or 1080)
- lacksconfidence 13y agothere is no standardized definition of HD. HDTV is 720 or 1080, but HD is simply a generic term meaning better than standard definition.
- p1mrx 12y agoThe only exception I've ever seen to the "HD >= 720 lines" rule is that of ignorant video uploaders.
- lacksconfidence 12y agodo you have any official sources? I would love to update the related wikipedia page but can't exactly cite a hacker news comment.
- p1mrx 12y agoThe best I can find is this: http://www.ce.org/CorporateSite/media/Standards-Media/DTV_Definitions.pdf http://www.ce.org/CorporateSite/media/Standards-Media/DTV_De... But it's consistent with your previous comment, in that it only defines HDTV, not "High Definition" as a generic term. But given that HDTV is what caused "HD" to enter the vernacular, you'd have to be pretty dense to call something HD Video when it doesn't meet the HDTV standard. That would be like burning an .avi to a CD-R, and calling it a Digital Video Disc because it's a disc with digital video on it. Interestingly, the PDF above suggests that you could have a 960x720 4:3 display that shows letterboxed 16:9 at 540p, and still call it an "HDTV".
- jonah 12y ago480i is SD, technically (in marketing-speak) anything better than that is HD. In this case 480p is...
- ojii 12y agoFrom my understanding the cameras are HD, maybe they don't have the bandwidth to push HD video streams down from the ISS.
- mpg33 12y ago480p is DVD quality
- jweather 12y agoThe PDF linked earlier mentions 720p, so it may only be the ustream that is limited to 480. source: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110019797.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001...
- iambateman 13y agoThere are 18239 people currently watching a black screen. Goodnight moon.
- sferoze 13y agoI have been waiting for UrtheCast (http://www.urthecast.com/ http://www.urthecast.com/) to start live streaming the camera they had the Russians mount on the ISS awhile back. Is this the same camera?
- qnk 13y agoWe have to understand that is a live streaming from 230 miles up in the sky. It might not work 100% of the time, but if you're patience enough, you can enjoy images like the one I just saw: http://cl.ly/image/2D0G0m0P2R3D http://cl.ly/image/2D0G0m0P2R3D
- ceejayoz 13y agoThird time I've been linked to this. Third time it doesn't seem to be working. No luck for me, it seems.
- peeters 13y agoIt's back up now.
- treelovinhippie 13y agoHas it always been a black screen? Could just be a fake test from someone like Urthecast to see what kind of demand a live stream would generate on launch
- barkingcat 13y agoit clearly states: "Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth. "
- danielweber 13y agoIs something explicitly setting it to black, or is total blackness what the camera is capturing?
- eddieroger 13y agoMy reading of their comment is that there just isn't any light since it's on the night-side of the Earth, and the Sun isn't providing any light over there. If it were over a part of the planet with light pollution, that's probably not strong enough to break through the atmosphere.
- panzi 13y agoArtificial lighting can be seen from space (the only man made thing that can be seen from space), but I guess the camera isn't good enough to pick it up.
- ApolloRising 13y agoActually that is incorrect. You can see the Great Pyramids from space. Link: http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/pyramids-from-space.jpg http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012... Supporting Article: http://www.universetoday.com/93398/can-you-see-the-pyramids-from-space/ http://www.universetoday.com/93398/can-you-see-the-pyramids-...
- JakaJancar 13y agoI would love to use this as a desktop background :)
- kordless 13y agoI'm thinking D3.js powered simulator.
- 1rae 12y agoI don't know why you would want to use javascript... have a look at this cinder space simulator, it supports oculus and should be easy to convert the cinder app to a screensaver - not to sure about a moving desktop background. http://roberthodgin.com/oculus-rift-gravity/ http://roberthodgin.com/oculus-rift-gravity/
- hiharryhere 13y agoIf you see a blank screen it's night. You can see the current location and day/night status here: http://iss.astroviewer.net/ http://iss.astroviewer.net/
- rasz_pl 13y agoUmm any decent camera would pick up at least something, black means they turn off the feed + like someone else said 480p is not hd
- lacksconfidence 13y agothe stream is gray when they turn off the feed, black is night.
- kordless 13y agoI'm just happy about it because SPACE.
- Timshel 12y agoOr from : http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
- pavel_lishin 12y agoI'm not sure why the night-time feed isn't at least picking up lights from cities or oil refinery burns. (Granted, right now it's off the southern coast of Australia...)
- InclinedPlane 12y agoEarth is big, most of it is ocean, most of the rest is uninhabited.
- fjcaetano 13y agoeyeporn
- karangoeluw 13y agoTHIS IS AMAZING https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/463920252615548928/photo/1 https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/463920252615548928/p...
- orjan 12y agoA (very) quick and dirty hack to see ISS Tracker (www.isstracker.com) and the video side by side: http://ri.io/iss.html http://ri.io/iss.html
- vrikis 12y agoPretty phenomenal when you think about the speed it's going at... I just watched it cross the Atlantic ocean and it's nearly over Europe now...
- bd 12y agoHere are some snapshots I made (selected images from letting the stream run for few hours, from about 4 orbits): http://imgur.com/a/99fS8 http://imgur.com/a/99fS8
- orjan 12y agoIn some of the images I could see some lens info. At least one camera uses a Dicomar lens and the camera used might be[1]. NASA's site[2] on the project doesn't say which exact camera is used. Anyone know more about the camera setup? [1]http://business.panasonic.co.uk/professional-camera/avcam/ag-hmc151 http://business.panasonic.co.uk/professional-camera/avcam/ag... [2]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/917.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
- synackrst 12y agoFrom a NASA project presentation[0], there's a Panasonic AGHMC150, a Toshiba IK-HR1s, a Hitachi HV-HD30, and a Sony FCB-EH4300 in the HDEV. Video routing is done by a Extron SW4 3G HD-SDI and encoded by a Visionary Solutions AVN443. [0] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110019797.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001...
- orjan 12y agoThank you, good find!
- jamesxwatkins 12y agoI have a feeling that my work day is going to revolve around watching this (no pun intended).
- ljoshua 12y agoNASA's page that combines the stream with an overview of where the ISS is over the earth at any given time: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ (Hint: if it is over an area of daylight you're more likely to see video. Use the white line to see where it will be in 1.5 hours.)
- tom_scrace 12y agoDo we know approximately what the delay is?
- kernelcurry 12y agoHow much does that vacation cost?