How big are the Pyramids? Compare here......
June 8th - Diane reports a red streak on on the PyramidCam image on June 7th at 21:31pm Cairo time.
It's a period of yearly meteor activitiy, but this light does not appear to be moving.
Odd Capture by Diane from today, May 2nd Cairo time. Click to see full image.
May Day - Back to business as usual, for the meantime. Thanks to Karim at that end for a tweak here and a tweak there. In four years of operations, we've never had an actual 'camera' failure (the StarDot NetcamXL is the most reliable beast out there) - it's always soemthing else like power, server down, or something comes unplugged. The previous 'PyramidCam camera', another StarDot NetcamXL, is still running strong in my back yard here in Western Pennsylvania after untold thousands of delivered images. Check out our Birdcam here.
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Daily Time Lapse Video
Thanks to Diane in Indiana for capturing this meteor trail and sending it to us. November and December often provide images of meteors entering the atmosphere, or in this case passing through the atmosphere. This example is traveling at an upward angle from left to right and back from the redish head there are trailing two hotspots. Due to the high speed of the object, our camera exposure causes the light spread out over the image. It thus appears that we have captured three pieces of one meteor that has perhaps broken up after entering the atmosphere. Since we have an angle and exposure time, we could estimate the object's speed at various given heights above the earth. To be visible, a meteor must be within 120 miles of an observer, become visible on average at 55 miles above the earth's surface and burn up by 50 miles above the surface. This meteor is moving between 50,000 and 150,000 mph. Pretty awesome.
November 9th - The Two PyramidCam sunsets from the 8th were featured on Coast to Coast on Sunday. (see Listener's Emails).
Moon setting over the Pyramids on Thursday, November 6th
Image date: 9/13/08 - This was a PyramidCam image captured off a live cam site by one of our Forum members who kindly forwarded it to me. From our experience it could not be a bird, plane, helicopter, insect, camera artifact or kite. I don't have a full size original, so it is not as clear as it could be.
November 2 - Here is a location map showing PyramidCam viewers for each
day - let's
fill up this map and pick up some new countries
PyramidCam on Google Earth - Here you should find our placemarks that locate the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Sound and Light Show and our camera position. You will have to have Google Earth installed to view. I've just re-installed this so that it goes directly to the camera position.
Weather - Go here to have a look at the latest weather activity in Egypt. The annual winter - Spring storms are starting and you can watch them roll in from North Africa bringing rain, wind, sand and cooler weather to the area.
Background - PyramidCam was started in 2005 by Jim Sorenson and Vance Kozik with the indispensable support and assistance of Rami Siag of Siag Hotel and Travel. Our camera is deployed from the top of the Siag Hotel in Giza, the best possible vantage point to view the entire Pyramids Plateau. StarDot Technologies provides our IP webcams, which produce the highest quality images possible - and which are so reliable that we have not had a single minute of down time due to camera failure over the past two and a half years.
Support - Our site is entirely "not for profit" and therefore we very much appreciate it when you check out the ads and the websites of our partners - The ads go some way to support the project, but not nearly far enough to prevent us from going out of pocket from time to time to keep things running. Donations via PayPal are also very much welcome, indeed.
Purpose - PyramidCam was conceived principally to provide a unique high quality view over time of the Pyramids at Giza for those around the world who might never have the opportunity to visit - we meant for it to be the next best thing. We also wish to encourage Egypt tourism and judging from the millions of viewers we are reaching and the many many emails that we have received praising the site, wondering at the unique power and beauty of the Pyramids and (the writers) promising to make a visit at the first opportunity, we know we have succeeded, at least in some small degree.
Weather - the NetCamXL IP webcam that we are running features an external weather station and you can read the real time temperature, humidity and barometric pressure directly from the station's sensors if you check just under the date and time in the upper left hand corner of every live image. Each image will give you the actual date, time and weather conditions in Cairo as well as a live view of those weather conditions.
Please support us by bookmarking www.Pyramidcam.com, visiting our Google ads; and by checking out the websites of our partners.... Please also tell friends and family about us. If you want to put us on the 6 O'clock news, that would be great also.....
Many thanks
Jim
