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Earth from space
Now for something completely different. Cloudy all the time here now so I've gone to remote imaging. Very remote!
This image from Himawari 8, a Japanese geostationary satellite out at 37,500km. Since Himawari 8 uses Ka transponders, it's rebroadcast on C band on Jcsat2B 4148H. I used a 2.3 metre satellite dish, C band LNBF with a single LO of 5150, fed to a Novra S300 IP data receiver. HRIT files were created with Kencast software and decoded to jpegs with Xrit2pic. Process by my friend Karol Masztalerz.
Same satellite we get all our weather pics from, except this is directly from satellite. The original images are very high resolution, 11,000 x 11,000 for the visible channel.
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