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Himawari.js: Download real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite
- xemoka 11y agolhmiranda put together a Windows wallpaper system tray version: https://github.com/lhmiranda/live-earth-wallpaper https://github.com/lhmiranda/live-earth-wallpaper
- nik736 11y agoPretty cool, but I wonder what one could do with it :D
- a3n 11y agoExperience the cool. Sometimes that's reason enough.
- Kristine1975 11y agoThis is impressive. Here I am sitting in an office (don't tell my boss) and watching the earth from orbit. And not just a still picture from the past, but an animated view from a few hours ago (then I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079097 and wonder if humanity really has come that far...). BTW the official web page of the satellite is http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm (click the three horizontal bars for a menu, including help).
- JorgeGT 11y agoWhy look at hours-old pictures like a peasant when you can look at an almost real-time video feed? http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
- ingve 11y agoIf you are into this kind of thing, this Python project [0] gives you near-realtime Himawari 8 pictures of Earth as your desktop background: [0] https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy
- willwhitney 11y agoI independently wrote a version of this for OS X: https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop
- jarmitage 11y agoI also independently wrote this https://gist.github.com/jarmitage/5042bfe20aa54b3d8dc8 https://gist.github.com/jarmitage/5042bfe20aa54b3d8dc8
- gauravagarwalr 11y agoNot trying to be a capital A but https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop/blob/master/himawari.py#L12 https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop/blob/maste...
- mpirstitz 11y agoI made a Ruby version [0] in case anyone is interested. [0] https://github.com/matp/himawari https://github.com/matp/himawari
- simplyinfinity 11y agoDoes anyone know where i could find a list of other satellites that provide imagery either public or for a fee?
- pond_lilly 11y agowould like to know this too, also is there anyone doing something similar to tomnod?
- mdcarter 11y agoDSCOVR is doing the same thing from L1 (http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR)
- JorgeGT 11y agoProbably the most useful resource is EOPortal directory of Earth Observation satellites: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...
- honua 11y agoWhy are the continents so red?
- dandelany 11y agoUnfortunately, Himawari's green filter is a different wavelength (color) than the green reflected by most plant life, so very little of it is captured, skewing the "true color" composite towards red. NOAA has an image product which attempts to correct for this - more details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978249
- ionwake 11y agoIs there anyway I can get a "distorted" image which I could fit to a globe as a texture - basically with dimensions such as this one: https://s3.amazonaws.com/blenderguru.com/uploads/2011/06/Spec%20Mask.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/blenderguru.com/uploads/2011/06/Spe... ? Any answer on how I could achieve this would be absolutely fantastic. Thank you.
- jakiestfu 11y agoHey, I made this. Cool! Thanks for sharing! :)
- perrygeo 11y agoanimated: https://glittering.blue/ https://glittering.blue/
- perrygeo 11y agoUnfortunately, Himawari is geostationary and doesn't provide good imagery for Europe, Africa or the Americas. If only Europe and US would get their act together with earth observation, this would be easily possibly for a truly global real-time imaging system.