They are here?

Two at the end, but 3 at the beginning and some more in the middle. They look like meteor showers. Three different meteor showers coming from different directions?

Those are Satellites, you could probably use TrackSat to find out which ones they were. If you have 10x50 Binoculars you can see these as well.

That big one at the beginning may be ISS.

Cheers

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:15:15 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in :

The angular speed.... I think not, meteors are faster.

Perhaps satellites, or even the ISS,

NSA spy satellites especially sent to orbit to monitor ME (hehe), but really, it was about 22:00 hours, and it is possible sun reflected from low orbit stuff (high up objects still in sunlight), I have seen the ISS like that naked eye.

I should have had dump1090 (air traffic) on, and the orbital program 'predict' running. I did hear no jets, military base close, there are in fact 3 objects at the end of the video,

All move at about the same speed, 900km/h ? planes? There are 2 trajectories that pass over here, one to Copenhagen, been on that one (seen my own place), and some to Germany? and further, in normal weather, plus all mil stuff (F16) many times a day. Dark (almost black) helicopters have rattled the roof here several times.... LOL ;-) Apart from the fact that they (planes) broadcast their GPS coordinates, it is also easy to target with this a white spot against a dark background once you lock on it.. When weather gets better (rain predicted for days to come) I want to do one with a clear sky. and all the air traffic monitoring on.

Ultra cool. About 10 satellites and maybe a few spiral galaxies.

I have the opposite problem: I need a cheapish USB camera that doesn't get blinded by full sunlight.

I thought maybe the video was slowed down.

They belong to the NRO (National Reconnaisance Office). The NSA breaks codes. You haven't heard of the NRO because it was always a "black office" with no public records. The NSA was not. Sometimes there is no logic in those decisions.

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:33:47 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in :

No, it is 30fps, but the exposure time is increaded automatically in low light, in this case to a about 1 second I estimate. that camera module has a DSP in it that does all that. It is really a nice camera,

I have a full report on area 51:

Area 52 is not public yet.

Sharpie on the lens. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Area 52 is the TTR.

Get the monochrome version. It is far better.

I want to one up you Jan, I took my son out to see the ISS pass over. When it got above the horizon I was confused because there were two objects one tracking the other just a finger width apart. After the pass, I went home and got on the computer, I found that the space shuttle had recently undocked from the ISS. The space shuttle landed the next morning. Cool stuff. Mikek

BTW, I use

PS here is the circuit diagram of the HUD display:

Preliminary.. I did by now 3 or 4 versions of this circuit, all for different projects. may make some changes depending on how this one pans out.

It is an extremely useful circuit to add text and simple graphics to a live PAL TV composite stream. Europeans know 'teletext' 'ceefax' 'videotex' etc etc, it is in every TV. (transmitted in the vertical interval).

In this circuit I simply use the display controller only, by sending the characters from the PIC via iic bus to the display memory. The PIC gets its data from a TCM3105 1200Bd modem chip from the received audio. Any encoding can be done in the airplane, and send as x y some text LF (x12LFy10LFhello worldLF) [state machine] or in the PIC, in code I will likely support both, I am not using the PIC hardware i2c module as there seems to be a bug in it, I will use tested software i2c I already have from other projects.

Switching between text, background, and video is done with a 74HTC4053 directly controlled by the teletext chip (that one does genlock too).

Some input protection for video and audio input (zener and diode limiter) is there too. Power comes from a LM317 5 V regulator from about 9 to 11 V Lipo or NiMh. There is a RGB matrix (the 3 transistors) that converts RGB to different grey levels, and a 2x video amp cable driver (to drive the small monitor on the remote).

A test connector so you can simply test it with RS232 commands from the terminal (bypassing the modem chip), a PIC programming header, and a Green LED for those who want to be green.

I will run the TCM3105 not with a 4.43 MHz, but with a 6 MHz xtal, as I have many of those, and to confuse NSA so they cannot listen to the telemetry.

Anyways, I think this circuit is so universal, it allows you to put text anywhere in your analog video, 24 x 40 characters IIRC, there is also a line 25 ? That for those who can program and find 2 TCM3105 (ebay has those) those can write simple code to put text at wherever you want position on a screen (it has single and double height support too)

BTW the pin 26 to 48 of that SAA5281 chip are not used, those used to be for display RAM addressing. but this one has the display RAM build in, but Philips wanted it to be pin compatible with the old one (SAA5246), so that is why 48 pins and so many not used.

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:13:42 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje wrote in :

HUD visibility test:

On the telemetry downlink: Will use 1200Bd NRZ packets. AX25 protocol, modified and encrypted. bit stuffing, software decode in interrupt in PIC.

This required the first circuit diagram modification, TCM3105 rx output goes to PIC RB5 interrupt on change, and I am using DCD (carrier detect) too now.

RS232 is available for testing and software development, and this all gets rid of an other mode switch. I think HUD visibility is OK this way. As you probably noticed I wrote some of the code for the HUD display...

I am releasing some asm source code for PIC 18F14K22 for the aircraft HUD diplay.

This is the RS232 controlled (test mode) version, not sure I will publish the AX25 encrypted version, as I am a strong believer in keeping the crypto method secret... Just give those poor NSA guys some work :-)

Anyways, if you connect this to a terminal with 115200 Bd, blah blah (bits), then you can put any text anywhere on the screenS (there are 8 displays, you can write to any of those in the background and display it or any other): Oh, and I added a clock too.. Piktjure:

Test setup, note the TCM3105 is not in the socket, the RS232 is from the header on the right, logic level, I have a RS232 to logic converter separate with a MAX232, so I do not have to put a MAX232 on every board. The header top right with the colored wires connects to the PIC programmer:

Updated circuit diagram, I saved on 3 NPNs in the color RGB matrix, added a battery voltage sensor circuit, added carrier detect, moved data output from the TCM3105 to an other input of the PIC:

Had no time to make a webpage yet.

Anyways, this circuit and software allows you to put text anywhere in a PAL video signal via RS232 as is. Can be very useful in many situations, I use one like this to add time to my security camera (send Linux 'date' output string to screen).

The asm code, all this, is released under the GPL, violators you know, drones...

PS: I am developing all that PIC asm on the Raspberry Pi, well that is I am ssh -Y to it atm from an other part of this uni-verse, no really...

panteltje12: ~ # ssh -Y pi@192.168.178.70 pi@192.168.178.70's password: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #371 PREEMPT Thu Feb 7 16:31:35 GMT 2013 armv6l Last login: Mon Sep 23 11:08:11 2013 from 192.168.178.20 root@raspberrypi:~# ptlrc -d /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200 Panteltje ptlrc-0.7 using device /dev/ttyUSB0 Escape exits.

Panteltje (c) lac_pic-0.1 On screen display control 115200 Bd, 1 start bit, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit: ctrlL clear selected display memory. ctrT start text to be displayed at cursor position, anything entered after this is used for display, including display control characters, crtlZ terminates this mode. ctrlXnnENTER cursor x position, range 0-39, default 0. ctrlYnnENTER cursor y position, range 0-24, default 0. ctrlZ terminate text entry mode. AnENTER select acquisition memory, range 0-7, default 0. B box on. b box off, default. DnENTER select display memory, range 0-7, default 0. F flash clock separator, default off, saved in EEPROM. f do not flash clock separator, default off, saved in EEPROM. GnnnENTER set clock calibration, set timer1 reload, default 175, saved in EEPROM. HnnENTER set hour. h help, this help. L long box on, default. l long box off. MnnENTER set minute. PnnnENTER set PWM, default 128, saved in EEPROM. S double height on. s double height off, default. T debug on. t debug off, default. v print status: time, clock calibration, PWM.

Nice menu, should get you going:-) asm is easy :-)

I think I forgot to add the debug... You can type v for status anytime to see hat you REALLY entered... I mean, I have this Logitech keyboard that gets the ENTER key stuck, man is that dangerous... think ebay... Gotta get a Chinese one, better one.

The Raspberry Pi s PIC programmer....

A Maxim part?? Are you nuts?

Farnell lists 5 different manufacturers for parts with that designation.

It's the "555" of the microcontroller age.

Also it seems that most stuff he builds only one of, so single source parts aren't a future problem.

Gung qbrfa'g zrna ur'f abg ahgf gubhtu.

I have made a website for this project:

Only if you are into asm, then you can have some fun with his modified AX25 system, CRC check and on screen plotting of the data. Actually not sure it still has anything to do with AX25, although there is a routine in there that will print AX25 packets call signs and message if they are text, I used that for testing.

It is very old stuff basically I did it last century in Z80 asm.. Anyways the system is quite flexible, you can format packets with any data bytes and display as you like on the screen. Look a the code...

This is the not encrypted version, LOL. And not the final version I am sure...

I need to do a site for the transmit (plane part) but if IIRC I already publised part as gps.asm ? mm do not see it on the site. Anyways, fun project :-)

Nothing personal, but we are not coming to see you.

Ardu

On a sunny day (Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:46:01 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :

Thank God!

Yeah, it many ways it *is* cool stuff. But consider just how lame it is in other respects. We are traveling some 300 to 600 miles above the surface of the earth to conduct a few experiments. Anyone looking at this from outside the solar system wouldn't even know it was happening. Then adjust your frame of reference 10x, what? 15 or 20 times to see the universe... man, we have a ***long*** way to go.

Then there is the actual planet that we have only explored extensively the quarter or so covered by land. We've barely "scratched the surface" of the bottom of the oceans. We have sooooo much to learn yet.