Moon from Himawari 8

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

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 (Marc)]

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

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

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

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

[h0ughy (David)]

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

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

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

Thanks Dave!

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

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

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by Saturnine

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

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 (Ray)]

Very cool.

[ChrisM]

Amazing!
Thanks for posting, Kevin.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

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

[malau (David)]

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 (Dave)]

Now that's cool !

[Phil Hart]

That's fantastic Kevin

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

cheers
Phil