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ESTVG - Endless Solar Timelapse Video Generator

Every 15 minutes we download and processes a new AIA 171 image of the sun from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. Launched on February 11, 2010, the observatory is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. [1]

Once a day at 8:05am PST, the server converts the downloaded images into a video running at 25 frames per second.

After the new video is generated, it is merged with the previous day's video.

This newly merged video is then uploaded to YouTube.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory

Images of The Sun Courtesy of:

SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA): http://aia.lmsal.com/

Technologies Used:

PHP: http://php.net/
Python: https://www.python.org/
ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/
MP4Box: https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/
Youtube-upload: https://github.com/tokland/youtube-upload
YouTube:

Resources Used:

Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/
Google Search: https://www.google.com/

Date Added: 2019-02-20

Category: Mines telecom

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