As usual, there was all of 4 days notice for an SSTV event. This is a pretty short event and optimized for passes over Russia, as all to often it happens. However as usual there were some passes over New…
Himawari 8 gives great views over a large area, however with New Zealand being towards the edge of the image, the level of detail seen is limited due to the curvature of the earth. Even for people who live in…
I’ve been having problems with the webserver that KiwiWeather.com runs on, with it typically taking about 8-10 seconds for the first page to load, but then reasonable performance as you navigate around the site. As always with IT, it is…
I’ve posted before about lens flare impacting weather satellites, so this time it is slightly different with two images from GOES 13. A few interesting points about this one. First off the black area at the bottom left is where…
Normally the images I post here are downloaded from weather satellites and the ISS, but these were taken with a humble mobile phone camera, capturing some amazing clouds.