Hi all,
tonight while taking endless peltier cooled images of clouds....
I decided to check my favourite sat-pic website for some hope of
any sucker holes that might find their way to Adelaide by dawn
Here are 4 pics from the GOES /
MTSAT website.
Pic 1: IR view at 16:33Z
Pic 2: IR view at 17:33Z
Pic 3: Vis view at 16:33Z
Pic 4: Vis view at 17:33Z
I think the geostationary weathersat (sitting right over the equator)
has caught the waxing thin crescent moon in the view
I think I confirmed it when I waited an hour for the sat-pic to update.
There she was, now on the eastern limb of Earth.
If you look even closer below Adelaide you can see me shaking my fist at the clouds.
If my simplistic view is correct, the satellite has rotated roughly 15 degrees in its orbit , as has the Earth below, keeping it 'stationary' over
the same longitude in space.
While it has done that, the stars have moved in the background, exactly as they should, and carried the moon with them, again , roughly sitting
in the same patch of sky behind (The moon, of course, would have
drifted slightly within this patch of stars)
So I think it IS the moon. I have never caught the moon in a geosat weather pic FOV before.
I then had a play with the Solar System Simulator to see if I could confirm
this line up.....
While I was at it I got 4 more pics...well, sort of
Pic 5 is the 90 degree simulated FOV from Voyager 1
Pic 6 Voyager 2
Pic 7 Pioneer 10
Pic 8 Pioneer 11
Recognise any of the constellations?
Steve