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Sounds like it needs a sky dome camera system (like they made for immersive filmimg) on the roof coupled with statistical analysis (mistakenly aka AI) to recognise and record 'interesting' things, coupled with localised alerts for known phenomena. A product for someone? [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 11:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC) | Sounds like it needs a sky dome camera system (like they made for immersive filmimg) on the roof coupled with statistical analysis (mistakenly aka AI) to recognise and record 'interesting' things, coupled with localised alerts for known phenomena. A product for someone? [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 11:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC) | ||
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| + | Most cool astronomical events don't come up so suddenly that you need an alarm. We know about eclipses years in advance, meteor showers recur annually, comets have months of warning, and unusual auroras are usually known a few days early. Anything sudden will probably also be short-lived, so by the time you get outside it will be over. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 15:26, 31 August 2024 (UTC) | ||
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♫♪ Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me... ♪♫ :) NiceGuy1 (talk) 04:55, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
I've tried to do just this by subscribing to a channel promisingly named "AstroAlert", which then proceeded to spam me 500 times per day with messages about a random meteor on the opposite part of the world. Woe. 162.158.110.200 05:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hence the need for this alarm, to keep it LOCAL, :) That's the thing, any such thing needs a LOCATION, to limit results to what is locally relevant to each person. :) NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
This comic seems super simple, so I added as muc( explanation as I can think of... NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Local58 moment 💔
172.70.85.138 11:27, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
With that device, no work is ever going to be done again... D: 108.162.221.24 11:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
There is a nice site called Astronomy Picture of the Day that is like this. Alas, it is "A cool space thing happened three days ago - sorry you missed it". --Divad27182 (talk) 11:41, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Sounds like it needs a sky dome camera system (like they made for immersive filmimg) on the roof coupled with statistical analysis (mistakenly aka AI) to recognise and record 'interesting' things, coupled with localised alerts for known phenomena. A product for someone? RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Most cool astronomical events don't come up so suddenly that you need an alarm. We know about eclipses years in advance, meteor showers recur annually, comets have months of warning, and unusual auroras are usually known a few days early. Anything sudden will probably also be short-lived, so by the time you get outside it will be over. Barmar (talk) 15:26, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
