High Performance Wireless Research & Education Network

08/31/2026

Short video of the planetary alignment between about May 21 and June 29 this year.

The camera used for obtaining the images is part of HPWREN's experimental setup of new high-resolution equipment on Monument Peak, where part of the objective has been the determination of low-light image performance.

https://www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/20260827/index.html

08/24/2026

Thunderstorm in southeastern San Diego County at 8 fps. This time-lapse video shows a significant thunderstorm east and then south of Monument Peak in the evening of 8/6/26. The views shown are east and south in the columns, and Cuyamaca Peak above Monument Peak in the rows. The four component images of each frame were taken in 10 second intervals, with each of those four images having a 3072x2048 pixel resolution. https://bit.ly/4hSf3dH

This time-lapse video shows a significant thunderstorm east and the...

03/10/2026

In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 2026, the sky above San Diego County’s Palomar Mountain region put on a rare celestial performance: the last total lunar eclipse visible from North America until New Year’s Eve 2028. At San Diego State University’s (SDSU) Sky Oaks Ranch Ecological Reserve — a dark-sky site nestled in the Cleveland National Forest far from city lights — a network of scientific cameras documented every phase of the eclipse from dusk to dawn. The resulting time-lapse record vividly illustrates what happens to a moonlit landscape when the Moon is swallowed by Earth’s shadow — and what is revealed when that shadow falls.

The NSF-funded HPWREN is a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego that includes backbone nodes at UCSD and several remote areas.

03/06/2026

Monument Peak Microwave Tower Collapse Captured by HPWREN Cameras and Seismic Sensors: A rapid unscheduled disassembly of a microwave tower on Mount Laguna's Monument Peak on 18 February 2026 was documented by Sudoku Ham of the Open Research Institute. It is a well written and well researched article, describing the author's view of the event, based on information he was able to obtain.

The NSF-funded HPWREN is a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego that includes backbone nodes at UCSD and several remote areas.

02/11/2026

The HPWREN 2025 Year in Review was just released. See the in-depth writeup at https://www.hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/20260101/index.html

01/16/2026

Several HPWREN cameras saw the re-entry of the Dragon space capsule as it was lighting up the sky along California’s coastline.

Several HPWREN cameras saw the re-entry of the Dragon space capsule as it was lighting up the sky along California’s coastline.

11/14/2025

Aurora Borealis, as seen (mostly) from Southern California on 11 Nov 2025.

Aurora Borealis, as seen (mostly) from Southern California on 11 Nov 2025.