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Earth and Moon from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker

Earth and Moon from Himawari 8

Earth and Moon from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker

Earth and Moon from Himawari 8

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Description

Received via the Himawaricast satellite service on JCsat2B using a 2.3 metre dish and Novra S300D receiver from my backyard on April 6 at 01:10UTC.

This is a pseudo colour image from HRIT data.

Red channel B3 at 644nm mapped to blue.

IR channel B4 at 860nm mapped to green.

IR channel B5 at 1610nm mapped to red.

IR channel B6 at 2260nm mapped to red.

Processed with Xrit2pic, levels and crop in Photoshop.

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Earth and Moon from Himawari 8, Kevin Parker