2008-04-04

YouTube, Halifax

In an unusually boring entry for YouTube, even by YouTube's low standards, the FIREBall team has posted a video of the guide camera data that shows that the balloon-borne instrument did not have stable pointing. Roweis ripped the video to PNGs, Lang fired them all into Astrometry.net and annotated them, and posted a video response! This is the first use of our technology to put meta-data onto video content.

In other news, I spent a very nice Friday in Halifax, where I gave my open-source sky survey talk, and caught up with Marcin Sawicki, who I got to know when we did the blind test of photometric redshifts.

2 comments:

  1. Hey, don't harsh on our video. We're just upping the standard for actual "content" as opposed to the usual "car accident" standard. :)

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  2. agreed; see comments on the video by YouTube user "profdavidwhogg".

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