Visible Satellite Images
Real Time & Archived

Click the rectangles on the map below to see images

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In this area of the web site we've put images of visible light. They are similar to what you see on the weather channel or your local TV weather. If you are looking for pretty animations of the latest weather or radar, this is not the place. These satellites only pass over six times per day. Their advantage is that they are much higher resolution (1 kilometer or 2/3 mile) than the images you usually see on TV (about 4 kilometers or 2.5 miles). This makes them very useful for viewing the details of storms.


Satellite Orbits
The data on our homepage are collected from the NOAA-12, NOAA-14 and Seastar satellites. To see where the satellites are located in their orbits click HERE

A few notes on our Image Archive

The images in our database are from the AVHRR (advanced very high resolution radiometer). We record approximately 9 of these passes per day. These images are just a small sample of the area that we can see. The satellite dish on our roof allows us to see as far south as Puerto Rico, as far west as Nevada, and up to 65 degrees N latitude and 40 degrees W longitude. These images were navigated using the predicted satellite position, which may be slighty in error, resulting in a shift of the coastline. Exact navigation requires human intervention.

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