He’s actually going to nick the marbles…
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Well, I seem to have lost mine!
@Baggypants where do you live? Now that disturbance is coming down here in Italy…
Hi @Lanfranco. I’m curious about your setup. Are you able to catch other satellite images as Terra and Aqua from NASA ?
Hi, what you see above is an image of Meteosat, so, 2mt dish, TBS5927 receiver and Eumetsat license (being a radio amateur I paid 100 euros forever). For what you say you need a receiver that I can’t afford and a very robust Azimuth/Elevation rotor…On my website, there is some information: iz3zlu.weebly.com (in italian… sorry)
My best was to build a Satnogs rotor with a 3D printer and Arduino, but it supports very light antennas that still give excellent HRTP images.
Thank you for the info.
Does Meteosat provide images from other parts of the world or it’s only centered over Europe ?
Just select the satellite you are interested in on the software (MSG data manager) and you can receive images from all over the world.
This link is from a very good Italian radio amateur who explains the system…
Ricezione METEOSAT e METOP
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Out of all the planets I’ve lived on this is my favourite.
It’s good to see the scale of it.
Mother Earth is simply amazing…but if you look closely it is full of viruses called Man…
You came here because on planets without atmospheres you can’t play bells, right?
We are neither as bad as we imagine or as good as we believe.
But imaginative enough to be able to view themselves from this distance and contemplate our place and the equality of all at such a scale.
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I disagree… from this distance we see the wonder, but we cannot see the ugly part… which increases more and more as we get closer… The maximum degradation could be seen inside many of us…
I don’t know how Google Translate can express this thought…
I think Rick Sanchez put i fine when he said: “Selflessness and selfishness is just to sides of the same coin”
Reading this thread i felt an urgent need to invest in antennas and licenses… There is nothin quite as amazing than the roundness of celestrial things. The famous pale blue dot picture taken from voyager, and the Carl Sagan quote:
“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
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Lanfranco, i took a tour on your website. Great stuff. Thx
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Thank you @core.east for all that you have written and that perfectly matches my thoughts and philosophy. I love Mother Earth (Gaia) and I hate “power” as a creation of Man.
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Thx, but i pass the thx on to all those (including Carl Sagan) that has pushed that train of thoughts forward or at least written about this stuff in a poetic and heartgripping way. Im a passenger, but i try to keep it nice and relaxed in my coach. And just because i am thinking about this author right now i will suggest reading: Ursula K Le Guin. 2 books. “The word for world is Forest” and “The Dispossed”. Books that in a long term perspective points to our problems, but leaves a speck of hope for the future also. Just like the sun beam that suspends the Pale Blue Dot
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And by the way - this is music too! It is not just Sex and Drugs and Rock’n Roll
If there is an Italian edition of these books, I will certainly read them. Unfortunately my English does not allow me to fully understand certain topics… Thanks.
P.S.
Music is Life…
Voyager, sent in to spacee in 1977 is still working. A couple of month ago, ingeneers from the NASA did à remote firmware update to stop some instruments to keep a little energy so that this wonderfull adventure continues.
A huge thanks To them, they make the world looking better.
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Did they loose the 5 pin MIDI out…?