Boxing day: Dome rotation video.

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Despite being heavily overcast I thought I'd try and take some videos of the dome turning under crank power. The idea was to capture the dome in more even light. Of course the AS15 action camera's battery was flat. Now I'll miss the brightest part of the day. I eventually managed to capture a usable video but YT has made the quality almost unrecognizable in comparison with the original as I see it at home.

The 7" f/12 refractor was pointed at Polaris for scale. The wireless, camera controlling tablet sits on the back of the car near a builder's folding stepladder. A long telescopic windowcleaner's pole is strapped to the stepladder for stability with the action camera mounted on the pole's crossbar. I hit the red button on the tablet screen and then head for the observatory to capture the moment.

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WARNING: Google/YouTube is now falling over itself to auto-play the next completely unrelated video when an embedded video ends. So you could get YouTube porn or a YT rabid religious atrocity video showing on a blog aimed at a family audience.

They [Google/YouTube] have actually removed the previous control box to switch off auto-play of "related videos."

All the previous online advice on changing the URL no longer works either.

This is a DELIBERATE CHANGE in Google's policy for hosting videos because THEY MAKE SO MUCH UN-TAXED PROFIT GLOBALLY FROM EMBEDDED VIDEO ADVERTISING.

I was just monitoring my latest video using headphones and high volume to check for unwanted background sounds. When I was suddenly deafened by a jet fighter video auto-playing at ridiculous volume after my own embedded video with  QUIET RURAL background ended. How can GOOGLE/YOUTUBE possibly claim this racket is related to a quiet video on a rural, astronomical observatory?

There is now so much porn on YT that children are almost bound to be subject to unwanted abuse of their innocence and senses by this DELIBERATE change of policy by GOOGLE/YOUTUBE.

Click bait fraud via salacious, music video thumbnails is now commonplace on YouTube. So that one can only assume that Google/YT greatly value this DELIBERATE fraud provided it sells their advertising. Reporting such behaviour using the tools provided goes completely unnoticed by the advertising dictatorship.

Simultaneously VIMEO are FALSELY ADVERTISING their Basic hosting service online. ONLY AFTER they have captured your full name, email address and password on their initial sales web page will you discover that Basic no longer exists! Now they want £8 equivalent per month for their minimum Pro hosting service after a month's free trial. Beware of false advertising fraud disguising itself as the innocent tooth fairy!

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