December 5, 2011

Peek a Boo

GOES East image submitted by " rel="nofollow Mike Mattei

Mike Mattei writes about the image he sent: Each day I check the weather to see what the day will be like, some times I’ll do daytime observing, otherwise it's night observing. Today while checking the satellite weather image I see the Moon peeking over the limb of the Earth, a space eye view from the geostationary GOES weather satellite, I have never seen this before in my everyday weather watching. The image was taken around 11:45 am UT on Dec 4, 2011.
I think this is an image of the Moon - what else could it be? But I haven't checked its size, phase or looked to see if its position is correct for the date and time. And I can't find this image on the NOAA servers to look for higher resolution. What evidence can LPOD readers find to reassure me that this LPOD really does include the Moon?

" rel="nofollow Chuck Wood
Thx to Maurice for his excellent 2 days of LPOD!

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An earlier GOES " rel="nofollow LPOD. There is a more recent one but I can't find it!

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