Mick West

This popped up on my Reddit feed today... a spider ballooning... Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/1w76yf2/a_spider_ballooning/

I don't really have any more insight than what is available in public. I think I'd score them pretty much as you did. There's more continued interest than I anticipated. But nothing has really been disclosed.

Sitrec does it. Video Processing, Echo Light, Full A-B Echo It's small, close to the camera, and just drifting at a very slow speed. Also, the "motion" of the lights is partly just changes in angles causing the IR to reflect off a different...

Here's a higher-resolution recording. It's a great example of this type of thing. The spider silk is especially apparent towards the end, in the upper right, as it drifts over the camera and out of the illumination of the IR lights.

Spiderweb 100%. Final answer.

I'm always happy to get bug reports. Even if it's a misunderstanding, it's often something that can be improved.

Look at the Status there, "Camera is within 5° of vertical". Which it obviously is not. Basically, you have three points that don't give a good fit, so it gets stuck. It's a combination of things. Terrible video, so hard to sync features, and...

Confirmed with cacti https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/Skycam%20Exact%20Location/20260828_201940.js

I think the exact location is 33.80139002637953, -112.76146305453676 - the wooden extension is to support the observatory roof when it is open. Note that the observatory has moved from this location recently.

Point fitting those hills: give a rough location of that camera 33.807037, -112.760630

this was at Latitude 31 degrees, Longitude 112W. In the Sonoran desert southwest of Wickenburg AZ. The clock is accurate. That's two vague locations over 100 miles apart. So not super useful.

On FB: Mick West Marc, can you give a more precise location? Also, how accurate was the clock in the video? Marc Dantonio Hiya Mick, yes this was at Latitude 31 degrees, Longitude 112W. In the Sonoran desert southwest of Wickenburg AZ. The...

1801 works, I'm good with that.

This is the AllSky camera used to capture the video (from Marc's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/share/19bfn6Q6yr/) . The perspex dome might account for the appearance of a second light tracking beside the first.

Thanks Mick, this is great. I am using this to plan viewing times. I opened your sitch and asked the AI assistant to place the camera at my location and local time. Super easy!