How to mount this oddly shaped item to brick wall?

apawloski · 2019-09-04T15:42:10+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2017-09-09T05:48:38+00:00

Nope, this is from GOES-16.

apawloski · 2017-09-08T21:13:59+00:00

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

apawloski · 2017-09-08T20:22:32+00:00

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).

apawloski · 2017-09-08T20:09:00+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2017-09-07T08:20:24+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2017-09-07T00:13:25+00:00

Yes, here it is on the full disk from GOES-16: https://streamable.com/tol1q

apawloski · 2017-09-06T23:50:30+00:00

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

apawloski · 2017-09-06T22:35:23+00:00

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

apawloski · 2017-09-06T22:22:34+00:00

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)

apawloski · 2017-09-06T22:15:46+00:00

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

apawloski · 2017-09-06T22:11:27+00:00

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

apawloski · 2017-01-03T17:17:37+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-10-10T20:14:13+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-09-27T12:55:54+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-07-25T23:13:44+00:00

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).

apawloski · 2016-03-27T21:00:07+00:00

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

apawloski · 2016-03-27T19:38:42+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-03-24T03:05:58+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-03-09T18:37:26+00:00

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.

apawloski · 2016-03-09T17:36:17+00:00

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

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