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MN2-4 KMSS, "Dutch Crops" taken from the eastpass
60 dgr. max elv. so the signal was not strong because of the thermal noise comming from the houses it just flew over..
the good news is: Lime at 75 MSPS no sampledrops !
a next time i'll try 79 MSPS....west pass i hope :)
Peter retweeted
This exceptionally rare photograph was taken by an Airbus Plaiades satellite on 30 November 2024 over northern Texas. The Plaiades is itself photographing *another* satellite (Starlink?), sitting much lower in orbit.
The reason for the different colours is totally fascinating.
The Pleiades satellites record images in multiple spectral bands: blue, green, red, panchromatic, and near-infrared. It takes the photos a split-second apart and combines the colors to generate a representation of what the human eye would see.
That's fine for stationary objects like trees and buildings, but not so good when the subject is travelling around the Earth at five miles (eight km) per second!
I made a (lower resolution) MSS chn. 3,2,1 composite
from todays Kanopus V-IK capture,
the area appeared to be Kazan, Russia. thank's to @allo83914498 for letting me know !
(Googlemaps check)
Some quite spectacular imagery broadcasted today by Kanopus V-IK , maybe Fred could trace the location?
feel free to zoom in...
here's some MSS/PSS crops (12 mtr/px, 2.4 mtr/px)
more later on...
NOAA-21's eastpass, as much i could track from the back of my garden....
rain/clouds incomming from the south for NL this evening🌧️
Peter retweeted
After more than 15 years in orbit, @NOAA will be deorbiting the Suomi NPP satellite starting on Dec. 1, 2026. This will be done by gradually lowering its orbit before it reenters Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean.
Suomi NPP was a pathfinding mission to demonstrate the capabilities of NOAA's JPSS constellation. The data provided by Suomi NPP are now operationally delivered by NOAA-20 and NOAA-21.
Learn more: bit.ly/3VQ4YoM
Kanopus - V4 , i like tracking these sats, for you never know what's in the box.. untill you open it...
found some signs of life though at this remote area..
I captured some nice stuff from Kanopus-V-IK this morning, some crops added🛰️
(rain incomming so that's it for today i guess)
Good old FY3D, an eastpass, handtracked from the back of my garden, just over the house...
i've always liked it's imagery, specially the depth created by the low sunangle this time of the year..😎
crops: Italy and a local one.














































