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Update: I've installed a new receiving antenna that appears to work much better than the previous one. Thus, I've increased the range of elevations the system will record passes from. In the past, any pass the system would record would have to get to at least 40 degrees max elevation. I've decreased this limit to 25 degrees. This will allow for passes which span farther east or west. I've also increased the recording time on each pass to extend the image to the north and south. However, the side effect of this is that low elevation passes may have more noise in them. As usual, please reference the telemetry bars on the side of the image for where there should be valid data.

NOTE: Any images from NOAA 17 are to be considered suspect. NOAA 17 is having technical problems presently, and the images are only being recorded for curiosity's sake.

These are a selection of the recent images received from the NOAA POES weather satellites. Several images from each pass are provided. Depending on availability, they will be Pristine, Contrast, Contrast A, Contrast B, MSA / MCIR, MSA / MCIR with Precip, Thermal and Ocean Thermal.

Pristine is the raw image received from the satellite, There are two sides to it, which relate to the two sensors. Generally during the daylight hours, the left side will be a visible spectrum image, and the right side will be an Infra-Red image. At night, each will be a different portion of the Infra-Red band. This image does not contain an overlay, and may appear upside down (this depends on what way the satellite went over head.) This image is included for those of you who have decoding software, and want to see other enhancements than those provided.

Contrast is simply the pristine image turned the proper direction, had a map stuck over it, and some minor contrast changes for visibility. Contrast A and Contrast B are the two halves from the contrast image (A on the left, and B on the right.) These also have had the contrast adjusted a little more harshly for even more visibility.

MSA stands for Multi-Spectral Analysis. It provides a nice false color image which very clearly shows cloud locations. MSA with Precip is the same image, however, areas in which the software believes the image shows an area with probable rain are highlighted. However, MSA is only available during daylight hours. So, MCIR is provided for images captured during evening passes. Please keep in mind that precipitation indicated in the precip images is merely a best guess estimate primarily based on cloud height/temperature. If the image is not clear, the precipitation predictions are likely to be rather inaccurate.

Thermal is a false color image showing the changes in temperature over the land. This isn't very accurate during the day, so really only look at it for the night shots. Ocean thermal does the same thing, only for the water. With both of these, warm colors like orange and red indicate hot temperatures, and cool colors like purple and blue indicate cool colors.