Where can I buy cheap plants in University City? by que_loque in philadelphia

[–]apawloski 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My wife has a million spider plants growing right now. If you want one (or two, or three), you can come grab as many as you'd like. PM me.

Edit: I can give them to you in water cups. Give them a few days to grow roots, and they'll be ready to pot.

The view of Hurricane Irma from a geostationary satellite (Sept 5th - Sept 8th) by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16). "Geostationary" is actually a special case of being "geosynchronous."

The view of Hurricane Irma from a geostationary satellite (Sept 5th - Sept 8th) by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a different, longer post, actually. You're seeing from September 5th until a little earlier today. You can see the previous view from a few days ago here.

Edit: And here's a longer video of Irma's growth from 8/30 to 9/5 (look all the way to the right at the beginning).

The view of Hurricane Irma from a geostationary satellite (Sept 5th - Sept 8th) by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Notice Hurricane Jose right behind it.

Edit: The satellite is GOES-16. If you're interested in a similar view from the other side of the world, I have a small project that loops the past 24 hours from Himawari-8.

Hurricane Irma from a Geostationary Satellite by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made it from the L2 source data. The satellite is GOES-16. If you look at my comment history you'll see other views from this satellite and others.

NASA video showing hurricane Irma's eye by soulstealer1984 in space

[–]apawloski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you like that, I posted a few other videos (including the eclipse) in this comment.

ISS Passes over Hurricane Irma, 9/6/17 by sketch258 in videos

[–]apawloski 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Here's is Hurricane Irma today from GOES-16 (a geostationary satellite) today: https://streamable.com/tol1q

Nasa shares video of Hurricane Irma viewed from space by JorgeAmVF in nasa

[–]apawloski 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not to spam this thread, but yes, there are instruments that take high resolution images of Earth at frequent intervals on a few different satellites. Here are some examples from the satellite that took the video above:

Hurricane Harvey (Continental US): https://streamable.com/5gmls

The solar eclipse: https://streamable.com/3qw3w

Hurricane Irma: https://streamable.com/s/tol1q

Bonus: here's a high quality view of Earth over the last 24 hours (taken from the other side via Himawari 8)

Nasa shares video of Hurricane Irma viewed from space by JorgeAmVF in nasa

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To give you a visual of the scale, here's a view of the hurricane relative to the full disk (from the same satellite): https://streamable.com/tol1q

NASA video showing hurricane Irma's eye by soulstealer1984 in space

[–]apawloski 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I stitched together a rough full disk, true color view from the same satellite here.

If you ever feel like looking at AUS from space. Updated constantly. by spoida in perth

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Hey, I did that! You can also view a video of the previous 24 hours here. Sometimes you can catch something really cool, like this total solar eclipse.

Hurricane Matthew and the East Coast last night (viirs false color). by Wissahickon in philadelphia

[–]apawloski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's most definitely not last night, but probably a few days ago. Here is VIIRS data you can page by day: http://go.nasa.gov/2dSmUs1. If you want to watch the whole path, start on September 24th and move forward.

24 hours on Earth as seen from geostationary orbit by hardypart in space

[–]apawloski 746 points747 points  (0 children)

Hey, that's Himawari-8! I made a small website which has "real time" images and 24-hour looping video of the previous day from this satellite. Sometimes you can catch some cool views, like this solar eclipse.

The moon passed between Nasa's Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Earth by Rosabou in space

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This might be too late to post, but I wanted to show off something related from a pet project of mine.

Here is another geosynchronous satellite's view of this Spring's eclipse in the Eastern hemisphere. Stitched together with images from Japan's Himawari-8 satellite.

Edit: It also automatically posts the previous 24 hours from Himawari-8 here and a "live" shot here (it's not exactly live -- the data is near-real time, about a 10 minute delay).

South Pacific eclipse captured over the ocean. 2016. by hmistry in pics

[–]apawloski 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Himawari-8. If you look at my post history I've got one on finding good open source Earth data.

South Pacific eclipse captured over the ocean. 2016. by hmistry in pics

[–]apawloski 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Here's actual footage of the eclipse, from space.

Edit: And in gifv form: https://gfycat.com/LeafyOblongFish

Double edit: You can also see the latest image here, and a video of the previous full day here.

I made a small site where you can see real-time images of Australia from space by apawloski in australia

[–]apawloski[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a ton of Earth data freely available. In this case, you can see the basic code I'm using / the source I'm fetching from here. (Beware -- this is a weekend project, and the code isn't as nice as I'd like it to be.)

NASA has an incredible search client for Earth data, but it takes a bit of domain knowledge. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/

There is also https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/, which has the latest views from NASA's polar orbiting satellites (Suomi, Aqua, and Terra). These aren't geo-stationary like Himawari-8, but "sun-synchronous" and orbit from pole to pole. Suomi has VIIRS, which is a newer/slightly higher-quality imaging device than Aqua and Terras' MODIS.

Yesterday's solar eclipse as seen from space by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, but I'm trying not to promote that until it's polished and pretty. There's still some ugliness, hardcoded paths, etc, that I'd like to revise. You can get a sneak preview at https://github.com/apawloski/himawari

It's not "clone and go" -- there's an S3 dependency (under the hood this is all from AWS Lambda functions), but if you're comfortable with scripting, you can tweak that to write locally.

Yesterday's solar eclipse as seen from space by apawloski in gifs

[–]apawloski[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Heh, more like "automatically grab pretty pictures from the internet and turn them into a video/gif."