Fred Jansen
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PhD-astrophysics. Was XMM-Newton and Gaia (2006) project scientist (PS) . Was XMM, MEX , VEX, Rosetta, Gaia Mission manager (11,10,7,2,5 yr). ESA (retired).
Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Joined January 2011
As a comparison, this is a similarly processed UK crop from 16-Jun-2023 - quite a different situation
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From a X-band pass of FengYun 3D @ 14:33 UTC today a MERSI false colour and true colour UK/Ireland crop.
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This week lightning hit my dish, thanks to an excellent ground leakage circuit breaker damage was limited . phew. From FY3F @ 10:34 UTC today, a day microphysics and truecolour crop of the bad weather patch over Northern Italy - I leave the forecasting to @original_lego11
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From the METEOR-M2 4 KMSS pass this PM, a few European small to mid-sized Isles. 1: Oléron and Ré, 2: Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney (rest under the clouds), 3: Wight, 4: Texel
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Using the great SatDump s/w - from @aang254 et al - on the verywip branch I managed to salvage some semi-decent image from a bad METEOR-M2 4 pass (4.7 dB pk S/N) from last Friday, showing the Rhine river in between the Vosges and the Black Forest
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Part of todays received X-band harvest. From ELEKTRO-L 2 a (semi)geo-stationary satellite a view of the Western hemisphere with: top-middle Newfoundland and the St Lawrence river to Quebec city, lower left Cuba. From JPSS-2 W-Europe with London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.
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Did two space related activities today: 1. Receiving an X-band image from ELEKTRO-L 2 @ 14:30 UTC today (peak S/N 11.0 dB, avg 10.3 dB) and 2. Reviving a 2014 VirtualBox VM for processing @esascience Mars-Express data; A Nadir channel image of Phobos by the HRSC camera
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Some pretty dramatic cloud turmoil over the Atlantic off the Portuguese coast. From an AQUA pass @ 14:52 UTC, using the SatDump down convertor.
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A few crops from the FY3F pass @ 09:43 UTC : Sardinia/Corsica, Tunisian coastline and Sicily received using the SatDump down convertor and SatDump s/w.
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A GIMP aligned crop of the 15:30 UTC (17:30 local) ELEKTRO-L 2 X-band transmission - peak S/N 9.6 dB (avg 8.7 dB)
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A crop from ELEKTRO-L2 @ 17:00 (local) - channel 3. Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic/Haiti, Cuba, Florida and Columbia and Venezuela can be clearly seen.
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From this PM @ 16:06 (local) two crops from METEOR-M2 4 / KMSS. Recorded with a RFNM @ 122.88 MHz (unfortunately the satdump recording got stuck over the UK). S-W UK and Gulf of Biscay. After a restart of the recording a small part of Scotland near Inverness.
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Using the verywip branch of the mighty SatDump to align the METEOR-M2 4 KMSS channels of an earlier recorded pass (20250402) - a Colour Infra Red view of the Wadden sea and the Northern part of my country. Excellent job @aang254 !
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I have been using some French and Dutch coastline scenery to optimise my own CADU reading/geometry correction software using a FY3F pass at 12:22 today and the CADU created from it with the unique SatDump S/W. Still some way to go, but not bad. Dotting the i's crossing the t's.
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RT @carlreinemann: Latest on NOAA 15,18,19 APT and HRPT and the discontinuation of data from these birds on June 16th, 2025. Thanks @NOAASa….
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I don't usually get good X-band reception this far to my S-E ; crop from a JPSS-2 pass @ 13:19
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RT @pa4fb: 2025.04.17 | FY-3G | 7790MHz | 17:41z | Max. EL 60degrees | Decoding #SatDump | Auto tracking #UltraTrack
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From FY3F @ 11:31 and FY3D @ 15:12 today - in just under 4 hours there is a vast movement and weather evolution in this area around Southern Italy/Sicily.
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Two crops from a difficult Suomi NPP X-band pass @ 13:48 local. Southern Italy and NW Europe. Wild signal variations as usual.
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