Are there webcams broadcasting the night sky online?

Question

Video broadcast

I live in the city and this blackness over my head at night is very depressing. Is there somewhere on the network broadcasting the night sky, preferably in HD quality?

Answer 1

A webcam broadcasting the night sky is a rather non-trivial device. You need a fast (and at the same time wide-angle) optics, you need to hide it from artificial light sources (and from the sun during the day), you need to constantly clean it from precipitation, etc. The probability that someone muddied such "just for fun" tends to zero.
There are broadcasts from telescopes, but not all of the sky is there.
The only thing I can offer is a substitute that is as “identical to natural” as possible. A virtual planetarium like Stellarium. There you can set your real coordinates and observation time, select the desired layers, play with the graphics settings and get a picture that is indistinguishable from the real one.

Answer 2

The quality seems to be a problem.
Here are the cameras in Tenerife www.telescope.org/webcam-tn-polestarcam.php this is the polar star, there are other modes www.telescope.org/webcam-tn-observatorycam.php .
You can watch the video, but the video shows that nothing is visible. Sorry for the tautology.
And why do you, if not a secret?

Answer 3

HD quality is unlikely, but there are many others. Such cameras usually set up observatories for viewing the sky, they are called all sky cameras, and for this query in Google you can find many links, for example, one of them is www.allskycam.com

Answer 4

Broadcasts are unlikely, but you can try looking for HD videos.

Answer 5

If for broadcasting to the ceiling - you can try to bungle it .

Answer 6

here is www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/allsky.html
and here you can download the video for the last hour astrobytes.net/allskyvideo.html (3Mb video about 30sec)