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Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by dylan604 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:58AM (#47936267)
Nice. I worked on a project using SOHO imagery that would do something similar where the images would be displayed on a large screen similar to the observatory on the ship from Sunshine. It was meant for a classroom for an observatory, but it just never made it died on the vine. It's cool to see a project with something I have actual experience in how the back end experience is like.
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by beeswaxpat on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:33PM (#47936741)
Sounds like a cool project!
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by dylan604 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:16PM (#47938289)
I saw that available in app store button, and hoped that it would be available as an AppleTV app. That would pretty much have done what I was attempting. Allow the user to control which filter and then select full screen of that one image. The thing I was working on was going to keep the timelapse loop to one full solar day for a full rotation. Including the moon and the live feed is a nice upgrade. I'd download this in a heart beat if it was available on AppleTV! ::pray-hands:: ::wink::
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by beeswaxpat on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:31PM (#47938484)
Just you wanting it is enough for me to make it!

Honestly considering it now — Flutter doesn't have tvOS support yet, so it'd be a SwiftUI rewrite. But the core ports cleanly. I want to do it now!

Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by dylan604 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:54PM (#47938862)
If you build it, they will come
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by doctorwho42 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:28AM (#47944171)
What about something similar but for just running it full screen on a secondary monitor?
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by doctorwho42 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:39AM (#47944217)
Man something like that would be great in science classrooms or universities. Just showing the current state of the solar system with live data.

I used to have a secondary monitor pulled up to the HD viewing project on ISS years ago where they had live streams of high resolution video feed, slowly cycling between a camera down, forward, reverse. Slowly they started to die, and they never replaced them. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/

I still thing it changes one perspective to connect a live feed to space, and just start to take in (even tangentially) some of these live type feeds of the world outside of the manmade confines we find ourselves

Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by andai on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:21AM (#47945547)
Just realized you could use a top down view of the earth as a 24 hour clock. I wonder if that exists already.
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage by beeswaxpat on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:38AM (#47975306)
I feel the same way after looking at the Sun feed and space in general, there's something calming about it