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951 archive entries
2025-03-28 12:04:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-28 10:48:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
2025-03-28 10:46:00
Hospitalfield
Arbroath, Scotland
Scotland
NOAA-19
2025-03-28 10:08:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-28 08:19:00
Hospitalfield
Arbroath, Scotland
Scotland
NOAA-15
2025-03-27 23:40:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-27 19:32:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-27 18:31:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-15
2025-03-27 12:24:38
KLIDEN FLORES LIMA
LIMA, PERU
PERU
NOAA-15
Satellite: NOAA 15 Pass Start: 27 Mar 2025 12:24:38 GMT Pass Duration: 14:55 Elevation: 54 Azimuth: 281 Solar Elevation: 14.8 Direction: southbound Creation Time: 27 Mar 2025 12:26:28 GMT Satellite Type: NOAA Channel A: 2 (near infrared) Channel B: 4 (thermal infrared) Enhancement: HVCT Ground Station: LIMA, PERU/South America My experience was pleasant because in my exact location there are no weather problems, but in other latitudes of my country there are weather crises of various types.
2025-03-27 10:59:00
Hospitalfield
Arbroath, Scotland
Scotland
NOAA-19
2025-03-26 23:09:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-18
2025-03-26 21:05:00
Hospitalfield
Arbroath, Scotland
Scotland
NOAA-19
2025-03-26 18:59:00
Hospitalfield
Arbroath, Scotland
Scotland
NOAA-15
2025-03-26 18:57:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-15
2025-03-26 18:17:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-26 12:33:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-26 08:38:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-25 22:19:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-25 21:16:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
2025-03-25 20:35:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-25 20:20:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-25 10:53:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-25 10:18:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-19
2025-03-24 21:45:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-19
2025-03-24 20:48:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-24 11:48:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
2025-03-24 11:08:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-24 11:06:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-23 22:40:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-23 21:00:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
It is the third day after the spring equinox. When spring arrives, we tend to know with a certainty that perhaps only the onset of autumn compares. I woke to bird song. It was only 5 am yet a Blackbird's voice cut through the night. I have seen the Blackbird during the day, perched on the balcony railing next to the bedroom window. It sung for perhaps 10 or 15 minutes before other birds joined, and the dawn chorus kicked in. I lay in bed in the greying light and wondered: how does the first bird know when to sing? It felt as if the Blackbird had sung up the sun, not the other way around.
2025-03-23 19:36:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-23 18:36:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-15
2025-03-23 10:08:54
Richard A Carter
University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
Equipment troubles finally subsided for today's pass, resulting in a pleasingly expansive view of Europe and parts of North Africa. One interesting aside is that the wind was such that it blew through small gaps in the antenna, making distinctly musical notes in the process - can imagine a speculative art project in which the antenna is turned into a sort of instrument, working alongside the distinct notes of the NOAA transmission coming in. It would be quite the composition!
2025-03-22 23:07:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-22 18:21:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-22 10:23:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
2025-03-22 10:21:07
Sasha Engelmann
Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
"That's so MacGyver!" says a blonde woman with a dog when I explain my tape-measure Yagi-Uda antenna. She and her friend / partner chat to me for a few minutes and walk off yelling back funding schemes that open-weather could apply to. "Welcome Trust.... Discovery Grant! Check it out!" I hear as they leave audible distance. I wonder if I've just met an arts and culture boss of some kind. I had come out to the park around 10:20am to catch a NOAA-19 pass that would pass over London at 90 degrees in maximum elevation- an elevation I have only rarely seen in my whole career capturing satellite images. A boy's football team is practising in my usual spot, so my reception is perhaps not as perfect as it normally is when I can see a perfect diagonal North-South across the Downs. Spring is everywhere today, in shooting daffodils and unfurling leaves. A twiggy plant that I had previously identified as a Serbian Lilac in my front garden reveals itselt to be a sycamore tree as its leaves unfold.
2025-03-21 23:20:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-21 22:16:00
Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
2025-03-21 21:36:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
2025-03-21 20:25:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-21 12:25:30
Richard A Carter
University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
Software problems caused frequent glitches in the audio stream, resulting in this rather "striated" sounding, despite an otherwise excellent signal. A reminder, if there ever was, of the fragile chain of material structures and processes that enable these activities - and of how this fragility emerges from their status as constantly performing 'agents' in the world, rather than the typical image of technology as always fully tamed, always fully obedient to human imperatives.
2025-03-21 12:25:10
Simeon Lok, Ella Richards, Rosie Everitt, Lena Prollochs, Millie Twist, Prinali Dilipo, Zhe Long Ou, Elinam Hammond, Maryam Ahmadi, and Sasha Engelmann,
Royal Holloway University , United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
It was overcast and dry. Some sun was peaking through. It got a bit windy at times, but there was usually a nice gentle breeze. It was about sixteen degrees Celsius. The satellite pass was really interesting to see. The experience was quite grounding - being connected to an orbiting machine in the sky.
2025-03-20 22:45:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-18
2025-03-20 22:30:00
The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
2025-03-20 12:09:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-20 12:06:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-20 10:43:00
The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK
UK
NOAA-19
2025-03-20 10:08:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-19 23:41:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-19 22:58:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-18
2025-03-19 19:41:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-19 18:35:00
The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers
CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK
UK
NOAA-15
2025-03-18 23:55:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-18 22:07:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-18 21:04:00
Automatic Ground Station 20
London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-19
2025-03-18 18:26:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-17 20:29:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-17 10:54:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-17 07:28:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-16 15:06:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-16 11:10:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
2025-03-16 11:09:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-16 02:56:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-15 22:41:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-15 21:01:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-15 07:56:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-15
2025-03-15 03:09:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-14 19:29:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-15
2025-03-14 18:30:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-14 08:54:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-13 22:23:00
Cosmos Astronomy Club
Pune, India
India
NOAA-19
2025-03-13 21:39:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
2025-03-13 20:34:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-13 15:55:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-13 09:53:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-13 07:11:23
Arthur Almeida
Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil
NOAA-15
This is my first reception of NOAA-15 through a Yagi-Moxon Antenna.
2025-03-12 21:48:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
2025-03-12 16:09:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-12 12:11:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-12 10:07:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-12 03:48:00
Heidi Neilson
Gilboa, New York, United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-11 23:43:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-11 10:20:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-10 23:56:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-10 20:12:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-15
2025-03-10 18:33:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-09 22:16:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-09 07:37:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-08 23:22:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-08 20:46:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-19
2025-03-08 10:45:22
Steve Engelmann
Santa Monica Pier, United States
United States
NOAA-18
Captured a satellite pass today from the Santa Monica pier. Sunny and 16°C, a typical March day. Two months after the fires that leveled most of Pacific Palisades it is hard to tell anything happened in the rest of the LA area. The pier is full with the usual sight-seers. Bike riders and volleyball payers do what they do. You have to know where to look for the evidence. At the water's edge interesting patterns are made of burned vegetation and ash. The new presidency is hard at work making us look the other way with declarations of the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley. Apparently in America there are now only two genders. Meanwhile thousands of government jobs and agencies are being canceled. Services related to education, the National Parks and medical research are no more. And the Coast Guard Academy can no longer mention climate change in any of their trainings.
2025-03-07 21:41:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-07 11:24:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
We've skipped from winter to summer. It's already t-shirt weather.
2025-03-06 18:38:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-15
2025-03-05 21:38:00
Vienna Automatic
Vienna, Austria
Austria
NOAA-18
This is the first test transmission from the Vienna Automatic station.
2025-03-05 10:47:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-19
2025-03-04 22:33:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18
2025-03-03 11:14:02
Sasha Engelmann
Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
NOAA-18
The alps curve with sharp icy edges, highlighted against the otherwise dark land surfaces of Europe. Around campus, and across parks in London, purple and yellow bulbs are pushing through the grass. I fight the urge to lie down on the grass and smell them up close, aware of surrounding students.
2025-03-02 22:58:00
Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann
Gainesville, Florida , United States
United States
NOAA-18