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nik736
Pretty cool, but I wonder what one could do with it :D
a3n
Experience the cool. Sometimes that's reason enough.
Kristine1975
This is impressive. Here I am sitting in an office (don't tell my boss) and watching the earth from orbit. And not just a still picture from the past, but an animated view from a few hours ago (then I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11079097 and wonder if humanity really has come that far...).

BTW the official web page of the satellite is http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm (click the three horizontal bars for a menu, including help).

ingve
If you are into this kind of thing, this Python project [0] gives you near-realtime Himawari 8 pictures of Earth as your desktop background:

[0] https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy

simplyinfinity
Does anyone know where i could find a list of other satellites that provide imagery either public or for a fee?
pond_lilly
would like to know this too, also is there anyone doing something similar to tomnod?
honua
Why are the continents so red?
dandelany
Unfortunately, Himawari's green filter is a different wavelength (color) than the green reflected by most plant life, so very little of it is captured, skewing the "true color" composite towards red. NOAA has an image product which attempts to correct for this - more details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978249
jakiestfu
Hey, I made this. Cool! Thanks for sharing! :)
perrygeo
Unfortunately, Himawari is geostationary and doesn't provide good imagery for Europe, Africa or the Americas. If only Europe and US would get their act together with earth observation, this would be easily possibly for a truly global real-time imaging system.