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misty,

early,

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what you know,

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everything,

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remote,

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moist,

fair,

local,

light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

weather balloon,

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2025-03-11 10:20:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-10 23:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 20:12:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 18:33:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-09 22:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-09 07:37:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-08 23:22:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-08 20:46:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-08 10:45:22

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Pier, United States

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

2025-03-07 11:24:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

We've skipped from winter to summer. It's already t-shirt weather.

2025-03-06 18:38:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-05 21:38:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

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

2025-03-04 22:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-03 11:14:02

Sasha Engelmann

Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

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

2025-03-02 13:06:06

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

A very low 22 degree pass on a cloudless March afternoon. After weeks of being trapped under a sheet of grey the scattered blue light of the sky is so very welcome. I sit listening to the beeps of the pass watching a sleepy Bumble Bee wave around after his winter rest. Yellow Hazel catkins tremble on a slight breeze and seem to vibrate in time with the click of the radio waves. For this brief moment, everything is connected. 11 degrees Celsius 54% humidity 1032mb

2025-02-26 19:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-25 11:25:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-25 10:46:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-24 22:51:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-24 11:15:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-23 22:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-22 11:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-21 11:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-20 21:28:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-20 11:54:48

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

First notably warm day of the year, unusually so in February, at 15C. Blustery. Malfunctioning equipment cut off both the start and end of the transmission recording - which also survived a complete computer crash.

2025-02-19 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-19 10:09:55

Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

2025-02-18 10:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-17 12:32:20

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

Some sunlight was very welcome after many days of freezing, rainy weather. As I tracked NOAA-18 over the Atlantic at only 31 degrees maximum elevation to the west, three women and a dog came over to ask what I was doing. One of them turned out to be a former physics teacher and professor, and we discussed satellite orbits. The small, short haired dog kept bouncing across my laptop. During the pass I thought of a recent rebroadcast of a 1970s radio interview in which the host described February as a month that is 'honest'. It doesn't lead you to think that things are any different than they are. It is miserable, and everyone knows it. Cheerful holidays like Mardi Gras are balanced by Ash Wednesday. If you make it through February, the host said, you will make it through the year...

2025-02-17 11:27:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-17 10:46:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-16 11:17:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-15 22:49:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-15 11:18:31

Applicant Visit Day attendees

Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

This image was collected by a group of secondary school students who attended an Applicant Visit Day at Royal Holloway. During the pass, Meteor MN2-3 made an appearance on the same frequency as NOAA 18!

2025-02-15 09:54:38

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Pier, United States

Mostly sunny skies and 16°C - pretty normal for a southern California February. After 8 months of no rain, the last 3 weeks has helped to finally put out the fires and bring the area out of fire danger.

2025-02-14 11:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-13 09:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-12 21:29:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-11 18:38:54

Receive location: Lublin, Poland Time: 18:38 Software: SDR++ Hardware: RTL-SDR v4, dipole antenna on window

2025-02-11 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-10 10:35:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-09 11:32:13

Michele Boulogne and Judith Ramitha Gunaratne

Amsterdam, Nieuwe West area, The Netherlands

The Netherlands

Heavy winter over the Netherlands, it's been weeks around zero; the dry air can get through anything. From above, NOAA19 beams through a wide mantle of clouds, they seem settled and a attached to the European continent- yet I've rarely see them swirling so fast, hiding then revealing our sun every hour.

2025-02-08 11:19:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-07 11:31:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-07 11:21:32

Sasha Engelmann

Between Queens and Schilling buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Yesterday the pressure over London climbed to 1034 hPa. As I cycled to London Bridge, it felt like anything in the air was being pushed out, even flung out, of the air above the city. I could see a dark cloud in the distance but as I cycled its shape got smaller and smaller, fleeing. The temperature had also dropped several degrees. Everything felt to be in motion, an intensity of forces. As I left the house at 6:30am today, the coldness remained but the pressure had dropped. During my lecture in Atmospheres: Nature, Culture, Politics, the rain suddenly arrived, pelting the classroom’s porous windows with great urgency. ‘Hello rain!’ I said in my lecture. During a break I cracked a window and observed two muntjack deer grazing placidly on the field below.

2025-02-06 19:12:00

Received with a remote SDR

2025-02-06 11:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-05 09:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-04 12:04:03

deptford high street park, uk

Today in the UK, the weather was cold and grey, but while experiencing this, we were receiving ticking sounds from a satellite and converting them into an image. The resulting image of the sky was striking and different from the one outside, blending technology and nature. The climate crisis is evident in my community with more erratic weather patterns, storms, and rising pollution. The contrast between the natural world and the technology used to interpret it highlights both the challenges and potential solutions we face in addressing climate change.

2025-02-04 11:59:25

Deyi Xu, Guo Zhen, Somin Yu, Weiting Diao, Yu-Hsin Hsiao, Ziyi Yang

Near the Deptford Bridge DLR station, United Kingdom

Cloudy, just like the typical British weather, also a bit cold. And I did see heavy clouds in the image.

2025-02-04 11:58:26

Broadway Fields, UK

Cloudy, windy, a little bit cold. A long cloud through UK.

2025-02-04 07:45:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-03 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-02 18:15:43

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

Having accidentally left out my aerial and SDR for two nights I feared my kit was dead. Having left the kit to dry for a good 24 hours I tried two passes this morning that had such bad interference I felt annoyingly gloomy even with a day of blue skies and sun. However after some online forum research and some kind soul giving me some tips for testing it looks like my precious kit is okay. The Moon and Venus are neighbours tonight. 3.7 degrees Celcius 74% humidity 1015 hPa/mb

2025-02-02 10:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-02 10:21:25

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

"Has your aerial gotten bigger?" a woman chasing a brown curly haired dog asked me. "Maybe its just how you're holding it!" she added. We laughed as her dog ran away. I tried to remember where I had met her before. After a somewhat stormy week, the air is crisp and the sky is a clear blue. The pressure is around 1023 hPa, suggesting clear weather for the rest of the day. I notice that bulbs are already poking up through the grass on the edge of the park. A 2022 study at Cambridge showed that flowers in the UK are blooming an average of one month earlier than they used to, and this is putting them out of sync with the insects that they need to reproduce, and that need them for food. As of yesterday, the Palisades fire in Los Angeles is 100% contained. Checking the Calfire maps every day, often multiple times per day, since Tuesday January 7th was a ritual that I hope I will never have to repeat.

2025-02-01 22:44:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-01 11:54:00

Leipzig, Germany

2025-02-01 11:07:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-31 11:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-31 10:45:00

Landaff Fields, Cardiff , UK

NOAA 19 clear sunny blue sky with 7pmh winds. Keeping the antenna close to our bodies helps to receive a clearer signal. Standing in the sun with our eyes closed and listening to the sound is meditative. Fascinating to see the image and imagine ourselves as a body in a green field, but also a global body in this vast sky

2025-01-30 11:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-29 11:35:49

Sasha Engelmann

Royal Holloway University , United Kingdom

My colleagues joke that January has been a sodden, dark, misty tunnel. On a decaying picnic table next to the Physics Department, I notice bright orange fungi, like colourful jelly strung across the peeling blue paint. It reminds me of a kind of fungi I once saw in the temperate rainforest at the bank of the Puget Sound, near Seattle.

2025-01-28 09:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-28 08:22:43

Testing, testing. Same antenna position, same satellite, different dipoles and a lower altitude pass of 54º. Vienna Inner City weather station at 3pm: temp. 16.8°C relative humidity 52% wind South, 29 km/h precipitation [last hour] 0 mm Sun [last hour] 19% air pressure 997.0 hPa Source: www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/wetter/wetterwerte-analysen/wien

2025-01-27 18:29:14

I am experimenting with different DIY antenna set-ups in an effort to reduce the electromagnetic noise that silently engulfs my apartment's balcony. Its origin remains a mystery. At dusk, as I wedged the wooden pole supporting a new copper v-dipole into an umbrella stand, I could hear a blackbird's distinct evening song. Like me, the bird seemed awakened, and perhaps confused, by the warm weather. It is spring-like and yet we are January. Yesterday, the air in the woods smelled moist and leafy as if living things were stirring, breathing. The days have been mostly dry, with broken sunshine. Tomorrow afternoon, the temperature is forecast to reach 15 Celsius. If true, that will be a whopping 20 degree increase on last week. The photograph on the left was taken on 18 January, the photograph on the right was taken on 26 January. There appear to be lots of fresh moles hills in the photograph on the right, although it is impossible to say as the framing is different.

2025-01-27 07:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-27 06:47:32

Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

We can see the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil completely covered in clouds.

2025-01-26 19:09:09

Mersin Tarsus, Turkey

2025-01-26 17:54:58

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

After Storm Éowyn. More wind is on it's way and the sky tonight has layers of higher denser cloud with lower and thinner fast moving cloud that race by across the faces of Jupiter and Venus. The breeze is getting stronger and by the time the pass has finished the clouds part like theatre curtains to reveal more of the planets and the winter constellations of Orion and Taurus. The idea of grabbing my telescope briefly floats in my head but it's quickly squashed by the processed pass of NOAA 15 more where I can see more weather from the west and pushing up from the south. Like the life span of a cloud the moment has gone. 5 degrees Celcius 88% humidity 974 mb

2025-01-26 11:06:49

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica, United States

I went to the top of a parking garage in downtown Santa Monica in the hopes of having a clear view of the sky. I didn't get as clear of an image as I hoped for. Perhaps some interference from the surrounding buildings, etc. Today was the first meaningful rain event for almost 9 months. This has been the driest start of the rain season since records began in 1877. Not a surprise when 3 weeks ago dry winds conspired in the development of six fires burning simultaneously around Los Angeles. 28 lives were lost and over 16 thousand homes destroyed. The human fingerprint is all over this event from the initial ignition, the preparation and response from the fire department, housing development within a flammable ecosystem, and ultimately, the climate crisis. A lot of finger pointing from the new president to the individual. Will there be any meaningful change? This will happen again.

2025-01-26 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-25 12:25:52

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

The aftermath of Storm Éowyn is a beautifully calm, sunny and clear day in London. The storm hasn't left much of a trace- there were barely any high winds in the Southeast, whereas the Met Office issued a very rare 'red' weather warning for Scotland and Northern Ireland, where winds surpassed 100mph, millions were left without power and roads were damaged. Between 2011 and 2024, there were 'red warnings' on just 19 days. During the same time, 521 days saw amber warnings while 1,922 had yellow warnings. One of the recent red warnings was in July 2022 during the 'severe heatwave' that raised temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius, melted train tracks and started wildfires across the UK. I collect a satellite image from the middle of Hackney Downs. The orbit is very far to the West of London, only 34 degrees in maximum altitude. As the image loads, the prominent swirling cyclone over the Atlantic feels incongruous to the blue sky above. It is an image of extreme drama and turbulence. Here, we are in an envelope of calm.

2025-01-25 10:53:10

Ferranti Park, London

Clear sunny day at Ferrenti Park next to my flat. I am struggling with getting a clear signal with my di-pole antenna. There is a glimpse of an image between all the noise. The signal was very sratchy and noisy but clear for a bit when I kept the antenna near my stomach

2025-01-25 09:25:34

Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Na imagem, vemos a vinda de nuvens que aparentam ter uma grande densidade em direção à América do Sul, maior parte indo ao sul e sudeste do Brasil.

2025-01-24 12:37:55

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

This weather sounding took place during Storm Éowyn. Even when undertaken within the ostensibly sheltered confines of York University campus, the roaring winds were more than sufficient to knock over and scatter the ground station equipment, even as the sounding was taken place! The double cross antenna fell to pieces and had to be repaired and held in position against the wind as NOAA-18 passed overhead - surprisingly, this did not appear to impact the recording. Undoubtedly, the chief source of local concern around the climate crises is in its potential to generate flooding from the nearby rivers Ouse and Fosse.

2025-01-24 11:09:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-23 11:00:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

This is my first time using a home made V dipole antenna. Although the quality doesn't seem to be that good. This may be because of the weather or because I somehow didn't build the antenna correctly. Keep in mind that I still use a Baofeng Uv5r and a phone to record. The weather wasn't great, with a little shower pouring down on my location, lot of fog and the average temp. was 4 degrees Celsius. Quite impressed by the range of the transmission being able to see a little of the NNE part of Africa and up to the Baltic Sea.

2025-01-23 10:07:23

Augarten, Wien, Austria

I began to think in "un-"s after reading Naomi Klein's proposal for "unselfing" in resistance to a politics of self-preservation and algorithm-fuelled ego. Around the same time, I realised that adding "un-" to German words is a shortcut to expanding my limited vocabulary. This is how I came across the German word for severe weather, "Unwetter". "Unwetter" is the opposite of "Wetter" and literally translates as un-weather. This week, the transatlantic weather of Trump's inauguration and the explosive fire weather of Los Angeles has been so severe, it has felt like both an Unwetter and an un-doing. That is to say, I can see in the people around me how the events of this week have undone certain beliefs about the past or expectations of the future. At the same time, five days into the ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians are reckoning with a new un-peace or Unfrieden.

2025-01-23 07:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 22:55:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 17:59:07

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

Storm Éowyn is on it's way but they are unclear how it will unfurl. I can see from the pass that something is heading towards us off the Atlantic. Warnings are changing from yellow to red and I feel for those who will again experience flooding or winds that will cut power for hours or days. We are not a robust country. Our red warning is very different from other places on the planet. The merging of seasons has left us confused and stuck. Sort paralysed by the bigger picture. A low cloud sits above my head as it glows an unsightly orange from the light of the city. Jupiter's pinpoint of light shines through the blanket of cloud. This is another night without the stars. 5 degrees Celcius 90% humidity 995 mb

2025-01-22 11:35:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 11:24:14

Sasha Engelmann

Queens Building Fire Escape, Geography Department, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

A last minute tutee cancellation gave me a fifteen minute gap in my back to back student meetings, and I snuck out the back of the department to the fire escape overlooking Egham. It was bitingly cold, but fresh. Though the pass was relatively high, the signal struggled to emerge from the static, and I decided the fire escape might not be the best location given interference from heavy machinery, air venting and lab equipment directly adjacent. The news has been filled with the Trump inauguration. For those of us, like my family, who have been directly affected by the LA fires, the slew of executive orders since Monday has felt like another set of fires that were foreshadowed by the burning of Los Angeles over the last two weeks. I am still checking the Calfire map many times daily, and stunned that 'containment' of the Palisades fire is still only 63%. A county infrastructure damage map has recently been released. It looks like a pointilist painting of red, black, green and yellow, but the coloured dots are houses, schools, cafes, libraries, offices and other structures in various states of damage. The map is mostly red, which means 100% structural damage. I found a photo of the house I lived in during high school and couldn't stop looking at it. It is marked as 100% damaged, but unlike other homes that are just piles of rubble, our former house is a hollow cinderblock rectangle with the remainder of the two-story facade pointing to the sky. The single window in the facade looks like a wide eye. Everything inside has burned, but because of the existence of the facade and cinderblock walls, it feels like a hollowing-out rather than a burn-to-the-ground. One can see directly into the corner of the garage where we used to have our family desktop computer- this was where I downloaded music on Limewire for the first time and made CDs for myself and family road trips. It is also the corner of the garage where I sat and chose my first semester's courses at Stanford University. The remainder of the house is a poetics of space- of corners, bubbles, staircases and windows where so much of my life unfolded. The second story - where my bedroom was - is completely gone, and the ring of tall bamboo that used to surround the house is absent. This means the hollow house is open to the sky- in the photograph, this is a pale gray sky that suggests ash still swirling in the air.

2025-01-21 11:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-19 12:02:27

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

A passage of the novel Bosnian Chronicle (Travnička hronika) by Ivo Andrić accurately depicts London's weather today. Reading before bed last night, I marked the page of weather scenography with a large stone, and found it on my desk in the morning - a note to self from the Bosnian town of Travnik in the late 19th century: "It meant rain and mud and snow; snow that turned to rain while still in the air, rain that became mud as soon as it hit the ground. At dawn, from behind the patch of clouds, a pale and listless sun would paint the east a wan rose; at the end of a gray day it would reappear again in teh west as a sickly yellow glow, just before the grayness passed into the pitch-black of night. During the day, as at nighttime, the damp breathing of the sky and the soil mingled together in a smoke-thin drizzle that seeped through the town and pervaded everything; in the silent, inexorable alembic of the damp, solid things lost their shape and color, animals changed their temper, men thought and acted moodily" "The wind, soughing along the narrow valley twice a day, merely shifted the damp around and, by wafting sleet and a smell of wet woods as it went, brought new waves of humidity; so the pools of dampness only nudged and overlapped one another and the raw, bone-chilling mountain mist merely replaced the stale, moldering kind in the town" - Ivo Andrić, Bosnian Chronicle, pp. 109

2025-01-19 12:01:13

Pauline Woolley

The Urban Garden, Nottingham, UK

It's mid January and grey. There is no bird song today. Just one lonely gull flying above land locked and trapped between the desolate winter ground and the concreate pallor of the thick cloud. During the pass I look for signs of spring from plants and fruits that shrivel to nothing to protect themselves. Today's pass isn't clear. An over sight from me for not unravelling the cables properly. Cracked lines and a broken image seem to echo a deeper global anxiety. Or maybe it's just January blues. 2 degrees Celsius 81% humidity 1019 mb

2025-01-19 12:00:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

2025-01-19 10:54:52

Steve Engelmann

Studio City, California, United States

This pass was captured from the Hollywood Hills facing the San Fernando Valley. My friend Henry helped out. There were some large power cables just overhead which I suspect created a little interference initially. The skies were a bit hazy, which is a big change from just the day before. I do not think this is related to the fires as they are mostly contained at this point and not actively burning.

2025-01-19 10:14:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

2025-01-19 08:13:00

Alba Iulia, Romania

Yes, I know the photos look bad, but my rig was a Baofeng UV-5r with the stock whip antenna, recorded with a phone. The NOAA-15 came today at 6:19 UTC almost over head with 89 degrees of elevation. There was a lot of fog out, humidity 84%. Temp was -3 Celsius.

2025-01-18 10:09:00

Automatic Ground Station 12 London

London, United Kingdom

2025-01-16 17:17:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-16 11:11:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-14 11:37:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-13 04:36:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-12 16:02:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

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