Himawari.js: Download real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite

This is impressive. Here I am sitting in an office (don't tell my boss) and watching the earth from orbit. And not just a still picture from the past, but an animated view from a few hours ago (then I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079097 and wonder if humanity really has come that far...).

BTW the official web page of the satellite is http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm (click the three horizontal bars for a menu, including help).

Why look at hours-old pictures like a peasant when you can look at an almost real-time video feed? http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

If you are into this kind of thing, this Python project [0] gives you near-realtime Himawari 8 pictures of Earth as your desktop background:

[0] https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy

I independently wrote a version of this for OS X: https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop

I also independently wrote this https://gist.github.com/jarmitage/5042bfe20aa54b3d8dc8

Not trying to be a capital A but https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop/blob/maste...

I made a Ruby version [0] in case anyone is interested.

[0] https://github.com/matp/himawari

Does anyone know where i could find a list of other satellites that provide imagery either public or for a fee?

would like to know this too, also is there anyone doing something similar to tomnod?

DSCOVR is doing the same thing from L1 (http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR)

Probably the most useful resource is EOPortal directory of Earth Observation satellites: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...

Is there anyway I can get a "distorted" image which I could fit to a globe as a texture - basically with dimensions such as this one: https://s3.amazonaws.com/blenderguru.com/uploads/2011/06/Spe... ?

Any answer on how I could achieve this would be absolutely fantastic.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, Himawari is geostationary and doesn't provide good imagery for Europe, Africa or the Americas. If only Europe and US would get their act together with earth observation, this would be easily possibly for a truly global real-time imaging system.

Pretty cool, but I wonder what one could do with it :D

Experience the cool. Sometimes that's reason enough.

animated: https://glittering.blue/

lhmiranda put together a Windows wallpaper system tray version: https://github.com/lhmiranda/live-earth-wallpaper

Why are the continents so red?

Unfortunately, Himawari's green filter is a different wavelength (color) than the green reflected by most plant life, so very little of it is captured, skewing the "true color" composite towards red. NOAA has an image product which attempts to correct for this - more details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978249

Hey, I made this. Cool! Thanks for sharing! :)