A History of the Sky

  9 Responses to “A History of the Sky”

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  captfitch says:

  November 26, 2011 at 7:29 pm

  Wow. I’m sure there’s a pattern there but it’s just nice to look at.
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  JFDee says:

  November 27, 2011 at 1:28 am

  Visualized statistics – you get a feeling for the actual shares of fog, rain and clear skies. This is fabulous!

  Now all we need is the same thing for 1970 … :-]
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  Alexey says:

  November 27, 2011 at 2:39 am

  The author’s (obeyken) comment on youtube says:

  “The date of the first image in the top left is July 29, 2009, and the last video (lower right) is late July 2010.”

  It may be of interest to crosscheck these with the satellite images of the day (http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=AERONET_Fresno)
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  Alexey says:

  November 27, 2011 at 3:02 am

  Another comment on youtube (by jstrummer) says:

  “Interesting concept… but artist Salvatore Pecoraro did this first in 1971 in a work entitled 365 Skies where he painted a sky for for each day.
  (http://salvatorepecoraro.com/365_skies.php)”

  I have not find a complete picture, but a 12-week fragment (http://salvatorepecoraro.com/365_skies_giclee.php) with a caption saying that “Pecoraro took a color-slide photograph of each day of 1970 at different times and places in California”. Even so, there were several contrails captured on different days.
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  Uncinus says:

  November 27, 2011 at 8:00 am

  If anything that section of Pecoraro’s work has MORE contrails that the video. Here’s the full work (you can’t really see the contrails in this though)

  http://salvatorepecoraro.com/images/365_skies.jpg

  It looks like it’s organized a week per column, with summer in the middle.

  It would be interesting to see that for several years. The overall pattern would be similar, but with a lot of randomness.
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  Alexey says:

  November 27, 2011 at 1:51 pm

  There are six years worth of British sky images in this photostream:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcweatherman/

  They are for the most days but not every day of the year, however.
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  Uncinus says:

  November 27, 2011 at 2:43 pm

  Thanks Alexey. Reminds me how gloomy England was
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  Uncinus says:

  November 27, 2011 at 3:34 pm

  Here’s a 365 photo set from Hawai’i

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/puuikibeach/sets/72157625601435413/
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  Steve says:

  November 28, 2011 at 9:15 am

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111123133123.htm
  Very interesting article about the strange and unique properties of water and ice crystal formation.