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Gibbous Earth from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker

Gibbous Earth from Himawari 8

Gibbous Earth from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker

Gibbous Earth from Himawari 8

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High resolution gibbous Earth from Himawari 8 at 0620UT.

Received with a 2.3 metre solid dish, Zinwell C band LNBF (LO 5150) downconverted to 1002 MHz, fed into a Novra S300 satellite IP data receiver. Himawaricast on Jcsat2B 4148 GHz horizontal. Kencast software to create HRIT files and Xrit2pic for combining and jpeg conversion of the HRIT files.

B5 channel was used for red.

B4 channel was used for green.

Visible channel was used for blue.

Luminance was then overlaid from the visible channel.

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Gibbous Earth from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker