Moon from Himawari 8

[cometcatcher]

Hi guys, it's been a while.

Every now and then we see the Moon pass behind the Earth as viewed from Himawari 8. I think I posted one of these before. This is another.

This was received by me with a 2.3 metre dish and Novra S300D receiver on April 6 at 0110UT. It's a pseudo colour palette, one visible channel and 3 IR channels blended to RGB.

[multiweb]

That's awesome. :eyepop:
Do you know what land is in the frame?

[cometcatcher]

Hi Marc, yes the peninsular is part of Russia called Kamchatka Krai.

[h0ughy]

What a cool catch. Thanks for enlightening us to its existence

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Dave!

[Saturnine]

Beautiful image from Himawari, more to taking cloud images for BOM and other weather services than meets the eye.

[cometcatcher]

Most background stuff gets filtered out, but some still make it around the mask. I've never seen the Moon on GK-2A images. Their mask must be very close in to the Earth.

[Sunfish]

Very cool.

[ChrisM]

Amazing!
Thanks for posting, Kevin.

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Ray and Chris. It's my other main hobby after astronomy. I love chasing cyclones with Himawari.

[malau]

Hi Kevin,


It is a really nice photo.


May I know how much did it cost you for the gears? Just a dish and receiver?

[DavidU]

Now that's cool !

[Phil Hart]

That's fantastic Kevin :eyepop:

How much did you have to adjust exposure between Earth and Moon in that combined image?

cheers
Phil