Best PyramidCam Images Evah! - Have a look at some of our most spectacular Pyramids images captured by PyramidCam Live over the past 4 years. --> Go.
Winter Weather at PyramidCam Control - I have another Stardot Netcam XL running in my backyard here in the U.S. and on December 31st the scene is quite different than what you see above at Giza.
December 17th - Karim did a great job today of cleaning the glass of the camera housing, leveling the image, setting the time, zooming in closer and installing a new UPS so we can have uninterrupted power for the system. This sort of periodic work is essential for keeping PyramidCam on the air from the Siag Hotel in Giza. Thanks to Karim, Rami and the staff at Siag for such great support. We are very fortunate that Karim could take some time off from his professinal work in the oil business to keep us running at maximum efficiency.
Family Book Plug - Normally I don't plug merchandise on this site, but Wild Garlic was written by a family member (Peggy Tolleson) and it's a super read, particularly for ex-pat Americans - it's beautifully produced with very classy graphics and it's about gardening, food, cooking, and living abroad in France, England, Tunisia, Denmark and Switzerland as an American-Swiss family. The website is www.wildgarlicbook.com It's on Amazon.com and other on-line book sellers, but it's better to order directly off the site as Peggy has stock in DC and can UPS you a book straight away upon order. She could use the sales right now and I'd greatly appreciate it if you would have a look at her website. Buy it and you'll find me buried in there if you look hard enough. Thanks.... Jim
Mariëlle Capture - This object was captured on the PyramidCam image on November 6 at 23:41 by Mariëlle. You can see the full image here. It's very interesting because it appears to be moving up and not side to side like most meteors we see. There is another frame that contains a smaller image below it which is earlier in time. I'll post both after some analysis.
Daily Image Gallery is back - the program posts an image every half hour over the 24 hour day. It displays a thumbnail, intermediate and full size image. I'm including night images because there are a number of interesting objects to be viewed: meteors, planets, the Moon, aircraft lights and, of course, the Sound and Light Show.
Tom Hartlove forwarded the setting Sun image on the left this morning. I noticed a spot in the NE section and checked spacecom.com for sunspot activity. It's a pretty close match, I think. The latest sunspot cycle has been very slow to get started, but this is a big one. View the full size image by clicking on the image below:
Captured by Diane on October 26th at 22:37:25
This is probably a meteor in three pieces, but depending on the speed of the object, it could be a single meteor spread across the image. The path is S-N and downward, typical for a meteor over the Pyramids at this time of year.
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Go Back in Time - Here is a review of some of our best images from Pyramidcam over the past four years:
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Where on the Earth are We?
PyramidCam on Google Earth - Here you will find our placemark that locates the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Sound and Light Show and our camera position. You will need to have Google Earth installed to view.
Have a look at the camera location
What's the Weather Like Today?
Weather - Go here to have a look at the latest weather activity in Egypt. The annual winter - Spring storms are starting and you can watch them roll in from North Africa bringing rain, wind, sand and cooler weather to the area.
The PyramidCam Forum is up
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Ramadan Karim - Best wishes to all our friends in Egypt on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr, the celebration that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
September 9th - It's been nearly a month since our last comment here on PyramidCam, but the long hot summer is nearly over and much works needs to be done on the site now that schools around the world have started again and our traffic starts to pick up. AnimalCams - We are longtime animal friends and supporters and suggest you visit AnimalCams, a collection of live up-to-date webcams like PyramidCam. Another recommended animal friendly site that we support is Wildlife Alliance.
The camera has been steady as a rock for the entire summer - probably the longest run we've had without any power failures or network problems thanks to SIAG Travel and the SIAG Pyramids Hotel who host PyramidCam with us. Over the coming fall and winter SIAG Travel will be hosting special events and deep-desert off-road excursions. They are the established experts in deep-desert travel in Egypt, so if you are thinking of an adventure holiday of a lifetime, SIAG Travel is the way to go.
August 11th - We have not had an ultra- interesting capture for some time, but this is certainly one! Diane caught this one on the 8th of August and we have never seen anything quite like it. I can't see a beam of light doing THAT.
You can see the full size image here
How big are the Pyramids? Compare here......
June 8th - Diane reports a red streak on on the PyramidCam image on June 7th at 21:31pm Cairo time.
It's a period of yearly meteor activitiy, but this light does not appear to be moving.
Odd Capture by Diane from today, May 2nd Cairo time. Click to see full image.
Daily Time Lapse Video
Thanks to Diane in Indiana for capturing this meteor trail and sending it to us. November and December often provide images of meteors entering the atmosphere, or in this case passing through the atmosphere. This example is traveling at an upward angle from left to right and back from the redish head there are trailing two hotspots. Due to the high speed of the object, our camera exposure causes the light spread out over the image. It thus appears that we have captured three pieces of one meteor that has perhaps broken up after entering the atmosphere. Since we have an angle and exposure time, we could estimate the object's speed at various given heights above the earth. To be visible, a meteor must be within 120 miles of an observer, become visible on average at 55 miles above the earth's surface and burn up by 50 miles above the surface. This meteor is moving between 50,000 and 150,000 mph. Pretty awesome.
November 9th - The Two PyramidCam sunsets from the 8th were featured on Coast to Coast on Sunday. (see Listener's Emails).
Image date: 9/13/08 - This was a PyramidCam image captured off a live cam site by one of our Forum members who kindly forwarded it to me. From our experience it could not be a bird, plane, helicopter, insect, camera artifact or kite. I don't have a full size original, so it is not as clear as it could be.
Background - PyramidCam was started in 2005 by Jim Sorenson and Vance Kozik with the indispensable support and assistance of Rami Siag of Siag Hotel and Travel. Our camera is deployed from the top of the Siag Hotel in Giza, the best possible vantage point to view the entire Pyramids Plateau. StarDot Technologies provides our IP webcams, which produce the highest quality images possible - and which are so reliable that we have not had a single minute of down time due to camera failure over the past two and a half years.
Support - Our site is entirely "not for profit" and therefore we very much appreciate it when you check out the ads and the websites of our partners - The ads go some way to support the project, but not nearly far enough to prevent us from going out of pocket from time to time to keep things running. Donations via PayPal are also very much welcome, indeed.
Purpose - PyramidCam was conceived principally to provide a unique high quality view over time of the Pyramids at Giza for those around the world who might never have the opportunity to visit - we meant for it to be the next best thing. We also wish to encourage Egypt tourism and judging from the millions of viewers we are reaching and the many many emails that we have received praising the site, wondering at the unique power and beauty of the Pyramids and (the writers) promising to make a visit at the first opportunity, we know we have succeeded, at least in some small degree.
Weather - the NetCamXL IP webcam that we are running features an external weather station and you can read the real time temperature, humidity and barometric pressure directly from the station's sensors if you check just under the date and time in the upper left hand corner of every live image. Each image will give you the actual date, time and weather conditions in Cairo as well as a live view of those weather conditions.
Please support us by bookmarking www.Pyramidcam.com, visiting our Google ads; and by checking out the websites of our partners.... Please also tell friends and family about us. If you want to put us on the 6 O'clock news, that would be great also.....
Many thanks
Jim
