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I'd love to have something like this as an animated desktop wallpaper - but it should be moving much slower. Are you aware of a movie file that I could use for this?

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I wrote a script that downloads the live (well, every 10 minutes, with 30 minutes delay) tiles from the himawari-8 website and update my background with it. Gnome is nice enough that it refreshes the background when the configured image changes.

I'm waiting for the solar eclipse in March, it should be (indirectly) visible. http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9

Sounds nice, do you have it up somewhere?

Now on https://github.com/glandium/himawari-wallpaper (I'm not actually sure the eclipse will be visible on the cut I'm using)

Thanks!

Try xplanet.

Xplanet can render to the background and keep an updated view of earth. At some point I obsessed over having current cloud cover images overlaid and that looked really nice. It can even render sun reflections.

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