GiveTheWorld.com: Daylight rotation on Earth (Captured 09/13/08)

[imtxsmoke]

this is sooo cool.

[uppercutter21]

@imtxsmoke I agree. When we first got Dish Network I was pretty surprised to see we had a channel that showed the view from the Dish Network satellite. It's 22,000 miles from Earth also (about 1/10th) the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

[DJcool2793]

where is the satellite located over?

[uppercutter21]

@DJcool2793 North America mainly because it's a Dish Network satellite and they broadcast all of their channels from it to North America. It's actually directly over the pacific ocean it looks like, that's probably just so the residents of Hawaii can have Dish Network too :)

[tab6812]

nice vid, 10/10

[joewillkillyouall]

0:19

[Boy75402]

I'm having difficulty seeing Venus.

[pietroamoroso]

0:55 a ufo?!

[Boy75402]

No. The moon.

[12clubpenguinfan12]

yup i found this on dish earth right bow it all purple

[deltaray3]

I was just watching the Dish Earth channel and thinking about doing this kind of timelapse. Thanks. I keep forgetting to look at the channel at like 2am to see if you can see the citylights. I guess you can somewhat.

[ugowar]

I don't think this camera can pick up nighlights, it automatically adjusts exposure duration (not too good at that, either) and it keeps it low because of the bright "diamond ring" effect. If it weren't for that, perhaps it could.

[GiveTheWorld1]

That is correct. The current Ecliptic camera on the EchoStar 11 satellite automatically adjusts gain. A future camera may be set to manually adjust gain to address this issue.

[cooperbn]

Wow, this is really cool. Where do you go to buy the personalized photo of the Earth?

[WTFBSYT]

I always wondered why there is no cam on the moon yet.Matter of fact,why have we not returned other than circle the earth only a few hundred miles away for weeks at a time.What a waste.Guess we will have to wait until china does it.

[ugowar]

Cameras on the moon would spend two weeks in lunar night every month during which they would get so cold they would break down.

The only reason noone's gone back to the moon is it's so damn expensive. Expensive to build a large enough rocket because it's ALL about mass. Greater mass means more expensive. Bringing something to the moon is terribly mass inefficient.

Saturn V weighed 3000 tons just so it could land just two humans on the moon, that's the kind of efficiency we're talking about.

[jovenlibre]

the moon is in the back of the Earth?

[GiveTheWorld1]

That is correct. If you observe the video at 54 seconds in you can see the moon pass behind (towards the bottom of the video) and exit the field of view at 1:04.

[ShaggyD808]

Im supprised with our technology no one has done this before

[dawsonccfc]

So if this is a period of 24 hrs... Then why am I not seeing any cloud movement?

[ugowar]

Because you're obviously blind. Quickly jump through several points between 0:50 and 1:15 and you'll see there is obvious cloud displacement, while the land masses remain fixed.

[cooperbn]

because the satellite is orbiting faster than once every 24 hours - and you can see the clouds moving, about as fast as you would expect for the time period.

[haldejan]

what's the story with this? what does dish network have to do with it? it looks like the real thing

[Lincoln6Echo1]

What does DISH have to do with it?

The cameras are mounted on their new Echostar 11 satellite in geo-synchronus orbit at 110 degrees longitude. The sat was launched last fall to replace their aging fleet of sats. Their sat locales are at 61.5, 110, 119, and 129.

[landstrasse36]

it is the real thing

[cooperbn]

This is awesome