alt Hacker NewsIf you are interested in taking similar images, there are several satellites transmitting ‘full disk’ images like this, instead of a camera you need a dish or yagi a sdr and lna. Example satellites are Himawari 8, GOES 18, Fengyun 2H.
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qingcharles • yesterday at 3:35 PM
I remember watching grainy B+W ones in the 80s via a dish. It might have been a slow scan signal back then? It blew my mind watching the Earth live as a disk, seeing the weather in realtime.
And they can be found online pretty easily: https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/.
I remember there's some tools to use the images as desktop backgrounds: https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy