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Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT

Name: Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT
Description: The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.

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3 HN users recommended this tutorial in 2 different months between 2018 and 2023.

2007–2026

2 strong recommendations 1 recommendation 1 citation HackerTube score 3

HN commenters credit it for inspiring their own satellite-reception hobby and praise the channel's high-quality content.

The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.

Pull quote: “The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content.” (HN, 2022)

Also tagged: satellite image reception, goes-16, sdr, weather satellites, hrit, radio

What Hacker News said

4 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Strongly recommends c0nducktr December 2018 under Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]

Inspired a hobby of receiving GOES satellite imagery

I'm in the process of setting up an antenna for receiving data from the GOES-15 weather satellite. I'm just starting out but got inspired after watching this video (no affiliation with the channel). [this video] People have been able to get some stunning pictures of the earth from those satellites. Examples: [link] [link] [link] If you're interested, check out r/rtlsdr, which is where I first was introduced to the hobby. It's full of helpful people.

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Strongly recommends notsound April 2022 under How to pull images from satellites in orbit

High quality content across varied projects from the channel

The sequel to this video: [this video] The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content. He does a lot of things, most recently covering things in metal, but in the past they have made videos on gene editing, growing opals, and making holograms. It’s a lot of different topics, all presented very well.

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Recommends jedimastert December 2018 under Serial Port SDR

Series on using HackRF for radio telescope and satellite reception

A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats. [this video]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it barbazoo May 2023 under The First Image from EUMETSAT’s Newest Satellite

Prompted a question about satellite downlink encryption

I was just watching [this video] and I wonder if some satellites encrypt the content before sending it to earth.

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