Bonus Parkerscope data chat
Added 2023-06-06 16:28:09 +0000 UTCThis is the extra footage of me talking about what else I tried to do to clean up the Parkerscope data.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for future use of the Parkerscope!
Main video here: https://youtu.be/IuUMxNfDfFY
Comments
I live in Pennsylvania and some friends from New Jersey and Massachusetts were talking about traveling to the zone of totality for next year's total eclipse. We've looked at hotel prices and got scared off (I'd be traveling with a 6- and 3-year-old). But now I'm starting to have regrets on not making the much shorter trip knowing you might be coming to NA next year for it... (The second reason I decided not to go, is the friend group decided to go to Burlington VT which usually does not have bright/clear skies at that time of year...)
Keith Moser
2023-06-09 04:15:42 +0000 UTC"Celery Inside!" is an A+ joke
r10pez10
2023-06-07 11:22:02 +0000 UTCHave you tried pointing the Parkerscope at its own output? The brightness of the display screen will give a reading, which darkens some of the LCDs. This will decrease the brightness, perhaps meaning fewer digits and so brightening again. Does it converge on a value, or cycle? The next step would be to plot the real-time sensor output as a moving bar chart in a dark colour on a bright screen. Aiming the Parkerscope at the screen would produce a feedback loop, like a 1-pixel version of the howlaround intro for 1960's Doctor Who. You could change the feedback delay by adjusting how fast the graph scrolls across the screen. My optimistic hypothesis is that different speeds would give convergence on a steady value, oscillations of different periods, and perhaps even chaos.
Sagitta
2023-06-07 00:04:45 +0000 UTCVantablack, or it doesn't count.
Andrew Weir
2023-06-06 19:38:49 +0000 UTCI'd probably also coat the inside with black paint.
Maarten Daalder
2023-06-06 18:22:33 +0000 UTCWhat about going back to the longer tube?
The Live Toad
2023-06-06 17:03:31 +0000 UTCBtw, I have not seen the 'main' video when I write this comment. I hope it is on track...
Gregor Shapiro
2023-06-06 16:43:08 +0000 UTCMorning and afternoon are NOT symmetrical! During the calm of the night dust and other atmospherics settle which are activated and rise during the day due to thermals etc. These diffuse the afternoon light considerably and cause, among other things, sunsets to often be redder than sunrises.
Gregor Shapiro
2023-06-06 16:41:22 +0000 UTC
