Worried that Our Lady may have fallen off the top of the Golden Dome in the last five minutes? Or that misguided work crews may be installing actual seats with backs in Notre Dame Stadium during the renovation? Worry no longer.
The departments of computer science and electrical engineering have a camera trained on the dome that picks up a color image viewable 24 hours a day via computer. For the latest shot, surf over to the World Wide Web page http://lisa.ee.nd.edu/DomeCam/.
The Notre Dame Office of Information Technologies has the same arrangement going with the stadium renovation. The Web page where you can see the new stadium taking shape is http://www.nd.edu/~jeremy/stadium/.
Both video images are refreshed every five minutes, except the night shots of the stadium, which are updated every 30 minutes. With the DomeCam, if you have an MPEG viewer you can click on a film icon at the bottom of the screen and watch all images collected the previous day run together animation-style.
With the stadium, you can access only an index of stills from the past 24 hours. The StadiumCam is on shared computer, so if you can't access it at a particular time, try back another day.