Live Video

(latest video always available at https://www.youtube.com/@Makakilo-Observatory)

The Makakilo Observatory has two networked video cameras and a Raspberry Shake+Boom seismograph & infrasound sensor. The panoramic camera is configured to observe the sky and serve as our weather camera, while our pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera will focus on interesting activity visible from the Observatory (ship traffic, brush fires, whales, etc.). The seismograph will record earthquakes and other ground-shaking phenomena, while the infrasound sensor will do the same for the atmosphere (e.g., explosions and helicopters). We also produce real-time maps of recent earthquake activity, volcanic eruptoins, global cloud cover, and atmospheric total precipitable water (TPW). Occasionally this video feed may focus on a single subject if activity warrants. Otherwise it will cycle through the following scenes:

1. Time-lapse of the last 30 minutes captured by our weather camera

2. Time-lapse of the last 30 minutes captured by our PTZ camera

3. Time-series data (ground motion velocity, air pressure, and oscillation frequencies) from our seismic & infrasound station

4. Global map of the last 30 days of earthquakes, updated hourly

5. Global map of currently erupting volcanoes, updated every Wednesday

6. Animated global cloud-cover map of the last 24 hours with named storms, followed by a static map of the most recent imagery

7. Animated global map of TPW for the last 7 days, followed by a static map of most recent TPW data