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Earth and Moon from Himawari 8
I haven't posted here for ages... been too cloudy! So I've been playing with weather satellites with my own dish in the backyard.
So here I was, trying to get a good light angle on Typhoon Wutip. At 0630UT I noticed there was an anomaly on the bottom right hand side of the Earth shot, over on the unilluminated side. I zoomed up on it and blow me down it was the Moon half occulted behind the Earth ! Albeit cropped off.
The Himawari 8 camera crops around the Earth so as to not waste data bandwidth transmitting the blackness of space, but this time something got through. How cool is that! The Moon from Himawari 8! Or part of it lol.
Himawaricast via Jcsat2B, received with a 2.3 metre dish and Novra S300D receiver.
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