Interesting saved picture from the Rochelle webcam

[Glen_Ellyn]

Unfortunately, pictures overlap, so the 9:26PM photo is out of the database

I have never seen a picture taken at night. How does the webcam stop taking saved images?

[FThunder11]

The camera is a Genius

[Anonymous]

I IT BACK

[eastside]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn

Unfortunately, pictures overlap, so the 9:26PM photo is out of the database

I have never seen a picture taken at night. How does the webcam stop taking saved images?

Probably the webcam control software has dusk-dawn tables coded into it and doesn’t update the database according to the schedule.

[mikeyuhas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eastside
Probably the webcam control software has dusk-dawn tables coded into it and doesn’t update the database according to the schedule.

That’s mostly correct – the server is programmed with the Rochelle sunrise and sunset times for every day of the year; ordinarily, it doesn’t snap pictures when it’s supposed to be dark.

It was possible to see objects due to the high amount of ambient light during Friday night’s snowstorm. An eastbound UP train came along and I manually snapped the picture Glen Ellyn saw.