Athabasca all sky data

[jameswilburlewis]

From Martin Connors:

When Jim visited I inquired about making my data open and hosted at more reliable places than my own university, where they both do not want to give us disk space and do not want us running websites.

Having thought about the best data for testing this idea, it seems my EMCCD multispectral data would be good. It is voluminous largely because it is a long-running dataset, but the cadence is relatively low. The file formats are pretty standard.

If you would like to take a look, please visit https://autumn.athabascau.ca/TBS_ql-keoemccd.php?imgFormat=RGB&dateRequired=2024-10-11 with id (REDACTED). Most aspects of navigation are straightforward but you should know that we produce our movies and thumbnails as “RGB”, as “RED” where we boost the 630 nm channel, and as Hbeta which is that but has not had the background filter subtracted. We have an Hbeta and 630 background filter, for 577.7 we do not bother.

Anyway please have a look and let me know. It also seems to me that our website was pretty good but the person who made it left. Another approach might be simple to put it on someone else’s computer where the challenges I face would not apply.

Vassilis thinks it might be good to host this data at SSL. First step would be to estimate the data volume and growth trend, to see if we can accommodate it in the THEMIS data server.