Weather Satellite Imagery

[Mark Pentler]

Tempted to go out tonight but night passes are kinda boring.

Great captures! What's your average SNR on Meteors 3 and 4?

[Dark Star]

I'll have a look next time the system is on - Ive turned it off for a couple of days as M2-3 is clashing with one of the NOAA's, & M2-4 is currently not transmitting images.

[Dark Star]

 Mark Pentler  60 odd degree pass at 2000uk tonight - I didnt see the average figure as I was having my dinner & only caught the end of the pass but the peak was 14.4dB

 

Channel 4 equalised corrected

 

 

[Dark Star]

NOAA18 1820uk

 

thats showing a long way north: top to bottom

north eastern Greenland

Svalbard & Franz Josef Land with Severnaya Zemyla over on the far right disappearing off the pic

Norway & Novaya Zemyla

[Dark Star]

NOAA19 0958uk 16/3/24 82 degree elevation

Nice to see the uk partially free of cloud for a change!

137MHz turnstile antenna
upotronics 137MHz filter
satdump software

 

[Dark Star]

16/3/24 Meteor M2-3 1405 uk

 

A glorious pic of northern Greenland. Im loving the sun glinting on the mountains in the west which are just about over the night time terminator.

[Mark Pentler]

Nice work all around, shame 2-4 is off still. Here is Meteor M2-2 HRPT today. It doesn't do LRPT anymore, and the MTVZA instrument is broken so the MSU imager is all you get, but it is well looked after and the calibration and detail is great, click for massive!

14:24 66 deg pass, 16.7 dB peak, 221/Ch4 Equ/Day Micrphysics/Precipitation

1603 27 deg pass, 15.6 dB peak, 221/Ch4 Equ/Day Microphysics/MCIR/Precipitation

And a projection of the two, 221:

[Mark Pentler]

Got the latest Iceland eruption on that!

[Dark Star]

A nice eastern pass this morning from NOAA19 0845 pass

 

AVHRR 3 rgb MCIR channel 2

 

 

 

Edited March 22 by Dark Star
wrong image

[Dark Star]

Meteor M2-3 pass 1120 pass went straight over Iceland & I think Ive captured the volcanic eruption

 

MSU MR RGB 321

 

[Mark Pentler]

 Dark Star it looks like a red dot for sure. Not sure thermal on 2-3 is calibrated yet but it may show up on that too. Mine was from day microphysics.
 

Lovely stuff though, too windy for me to get the kit out!

[Dark Star]

Very very windy here too - gusting to over 30mph according to my little weather station. My poor satellite tv dishes are getting yet another battering!

The "plume" is visible on all the 2-3 images but the MSU MR 3 image shows a definite bright dot at the start  of it Cropped & zoomed image

[pontiend]

I have just about mastered Satdump.Okay getting there.Owing to the position of my antenna this is the best that I can do.NOAA 19 .  19.15.

 

Edited March 23 by pontiend

[Mark Pentler]

 pontiend I'm glad! Stick with it - I promise going forward it'll be worth it.

[pontiend]

9.35 Meteor-M2 3 pass and 9.20 NOAA19 pass.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 28 by pontiend

[Mark Pentler]

Gonna be a wet one! I may get out soon, bit windy though for dish holding!

[Dark Star]

29/3/24 Meteor M2-3  1044uk Max elevation 49 west

 

MSU MR RGB 221

 

No sign of the Iceland hotspot at the volcanic eruption today

Edited March 29 by Dark Star

[Dark Star]

And on almost the same track today but 5 minutes earlier - NOAA19 1040uk 53 degrees elevation west.

AVHRR 3 RGB MCIR rain

[Dark Star]

30/3/24  NOAA 19 1028uk 64 degree elevation

AVHRR 3 rgb mcir

 

 

[Mark Pentler]

I keep meaning to get up early and fluffing it. Maybe I'll do some this afternoon but we have rain scheduled.

[Dark Star]

Sunshine over much of the uk

 

31/3/24 1013utc Meteor M2-3 msu mr rgb 221

 

 

[Mark Pentler]

Been out this morning and may do more today, here's Metop-B, NOAA Natural Color, 60 odd degrees and blocked by the house to the south, included some other instruments too:

Here's NOAA 19, 82 degrees, longer capture, but as this is an analogue signal with no error correction unlike Metop I get RFI issues, so I use the despeckle in SatDump to fix it:

Finally, here's a little animation of the two centred on the UK, twenty minutes apart. I think NOAA 19 has a brighter AVHRR sensor maybe?

[Dark Star]

NOAA19 1016utc 31/3/24

 

avhrr 3 rgb mcir

Edited March 31 by Dark Star

[Mark Pentler]

Looks like we got the same pass then!

Here's N18 from just now, and an updated animation with appropriate delays to try and aid with the different time frames between images:
  

Edited March 31 by Mark Pentler

[Dark Star]

31/3/24. I dont normally leave the system running after dark but Ive got a nice NOAAS19 pass at 2010utc

 

AVHRR 3 rgb mcir