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of,

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bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

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civil war,

common ground,

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questions,

gloom,

weather,

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displaced,

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dirt,

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what you know,

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anticipation,

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everything,

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1000 year storm,

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given names,

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people,

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moist,

fair,

local,

light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

weather balloon,

upside down,

floods,

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immeasurable,

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Automatic Ground Stations are local, semi-permanent stations that record and upload satellite transmissions automatically once per day. Manual ground stations are DIY and often mobile; operators manually record and upload satellite transmissions.

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The archive contains Automatic Picture Transmissions (APT) by US weather satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19.

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2025-03-07 21:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

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.

2025-03-08 20:46:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-08 23:22:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-09 07:37:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-09 22:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 18:33:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-10 20:12:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 23:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-11 10:20:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-11 23:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-12 03:48:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-12 10:07:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-12 12:11:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-12 16:09:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-12 21:48:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-13 07:11:23

Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This is my first reception of NOAA-15 through a Yagi-Moxon Antenna.

2025-03-13 09:53:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-13 15:55:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-13 20:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-13 21:39:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-13 22:23:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-14 08:54:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-14 18:30:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-14 19:29:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-15 03:09:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-15 07:56:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-15 21:01:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-15 22:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-16 02:56:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-16 11:09:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-16 11:10:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-16 15:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-17 07:28:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-17 10:54:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-17 20:29:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-18 18:26:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-18 21:04:00

Automatic Ground Station 20

London, United Kingdom

2025-03-18 22:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-18 23:55:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-19 18:35:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK

Blue skies for installing the ground station the day before this first image uploaded, we worked together with Ray from Goonown. It was warm and springlike in Helston, the magnolias on the streets around CAST had just come into their element. We thought we knew the aspect of the building but we were surprised by the direction of true north, we had been looking closer to north north west. Spent some time pondering magnetic deviation, unsure if the smart phone compass already accounted for it, wished we had a proper compass with us. We chatted with Ray about the dry weather and how different it’s for them planting this year compared to last. A few passers-by already stopped and mused on the new feature - ‘are you installing Sky TV?’. The computer, sitting under the desk of the buildings office, seemed to be working okay and we were intrigued to see if it would upload. Ruth listened to the audio file before we saw the first image, as the automatic upload didn’t work the first time - a strange sound. Seeing this first image we couldn’t quite comprehend any features poking through the noise, it wasn’t until someone else pointed out Scotland and Ireland beneath the clouds, upside down. We worried the granite building was obscuring the reading too much but were excited to see if we could trouble shoot the image with help from Sasha and Soph. The Seaweed Institute

2025-03-19 19:41:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-19 22:58:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-19 23:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-20 10:08:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-20 10:43:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK

2025-03-20 12:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-20 12:09:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-20 22:30:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-20 22:45:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

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

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.

2025-03-21 12:25:30

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

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 20:25:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-21 21:36:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-21 22:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-21 23:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-22 10:21:07

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

"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.

2025-03-22 10:23:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-22 18:21:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-22 23:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-23 10:08:54

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

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!

2025-03-23 18:36:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-23 19:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-23 21:00:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

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 22:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-24 11:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-24 11:08:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-24 11:48:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-24 20:48:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-24 21:45:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-25 10:18:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-25 10:53:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-25 20:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-25 20:35:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-25 21:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-25 22:19:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-26 08:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-26 12:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-26 18:17:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-26 18:57:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-26 18:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-26 21:05:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-26 23:09:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-27 10:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

First daytime image from the antenna at Hospitalfield. Weather: Increasingly drizzly and windy from the start of the day. Hoods up. Rain that sounds like it might be hail. Dry ground means big puddles.

2025-03-27 12:24:38

KLIDEN FLORES LIMA

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 18:31:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-27 19:32:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-27 20:53:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-27 23:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-28 08:19:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-28 10:08:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-28 10:46:00

Arbroath, Scotland

Today I visited the antenna on top of the tower after it was installed yesterday (thanks to Ross and Kirsten!). There's a bright enough sun to squint but not enough to warm the body, just flush my face. Or that could be the walk up spiralling stairway and the sudden exposure to wind. The AGS is further down the stairs, in the collections store room, just next to the Victorian telescope that I'm told is rumoured to have be used out here on the tower. Now, the gleaming copper v-dipole antenna is standing firm – just a slight wibble in its arms in the gusting wind. Strapped to the eroding sandstone. A lightning rod is a nearby companion, a much older installation. Strong shadows and pools of water sit on the roof from last night's rain. Fast moving clouds make a repeating rhythm of sensations, like drum beats. One beat sun, one beat rain flecks, beat cloud, beat sun, beat rain etc. The wind buffeting is a constant through the day. The sea is silvery in the distance with a slightly hazy horizon. Looking down to ground level, daffodils smile back. Dots of primrose. Bluebells are on the cusp. Perhaps less distinct waves of their flowering than in the past. The beats quicken. Up here it's just me, but down from the tower it's a busy day, the garden club volunteers have lots of spring jobs to do, the Travelling Gallery bus is visiting, the cafe is packed, and there's more going on than I know about. I shout to Andy (who drives the bus) – he can't hear me over the wind, but I take a photo.

2025-03-28 10:48:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-28 12:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-28 20:38:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-28 23:27:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-29 18:39:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-29 20:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-29 22:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-29 23:17:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

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