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Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Update: iOS just went live minutes ago! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumara-sun-moon-live-viewer/id... Site's been updated with the real badge — universal iPhone + iPad app. Free, same features as Android.

Is it available only in the US? Right now it’s not available in Germany. Maybe it (AppStore)takes time?

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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I just was going to post same, so make it a 3rd!

I did not anticipate having a screensaver project on my bingo card on this day in 2026 but it is now so! I am guessing that most people would want to see the Sun videos for a screen saver, maybe a random wavelength on each screensaver instance? I will make an opensource repo to it that works on desktop-anything with a little GUI for user settings/preferences. EDIT: Or did you all mean basically replicating the site a…

I meant the whole page with the four sections, but maybe also enable any specific part as well would be cool.

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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post #41

Update: iOS just went live minutes ago! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumara-sun-moon-live-viewer/id... Site's been updated with the real badge — universal iPhone + iPad app. Free, same features as Android.

Is it available only in the US? Right now it’s not available in Germany. Maybe it (AppStore)takes time?

It should be available in all countries (it just went live a few hours ago, perhaps it takes a day?), I will look into that though and confirm. Hopefully it is available ASAP!

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Just about everything should be updated now, thanks again!

I see the changes now - just incredible! You are probably the most responsive author I have ever interacted with in decades.

Oh wow well thank you! I appreciate feedback and am happy to incorporate it ASAP if I'm by the computer :D

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Looks very neat. You may want to optimize the content serving a bit, since it's currently hotlinking multiple large (30MB) videos at 2K resolution from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov .

Yes, you're right about optimization, this what I'll do: - Switch default to 1024p instead of 2048p so file drops from ~30 MB → ~8 MB (4× smaller) - Proxy through existing Cloudflare Worker with edge cache - Add a /video/* route that fetches NASA URL once, caches at the edge - After 1st request per region, every subsequent visitor gets it from Cloudflare PoP

= NASA bandwidth: ~50 hits/day instead of ~10,000! NASA load drops by ~99%

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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post #42

Looks very neat. You may want to optimize the content serving a bit, since it's currently hotlinking multiple large (30MB) videos at 2K resolution from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov .

Update: Updated! Optimizations implemented, thanks for the feedback!
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