Space background
Some time ago I stumbled upon a blogpost featuring a script to set up your windows desktop background to an image coming from a Japanese satellite operating over Australia. This is the link to the script on github.
Basically what you need to do is to download the script, adjust the time for your timezone (-11 for Melbourne) and create a scheduled task to run the script every 30 minutes.
The result is a 30 minutes delayed image of our planet on your desktop. I have this going on my laptop for over a year now and every time I see an updated picture I can't stop but think that we live in such an amazing world after all...
UPD: Apparently if you extract the date from metedata json file as shown below, you can ignore the timezone adjustments.
$latestInfoUri = "http://himawari8-dl.nict.go.jp/himawari8/img/D531106/latest.json?" + (New-Guid).ToString();
Also, you can play around with precision levels (4d - 20d), which results in a crispier image. You would have to download more data though. The size for 4d is roughly 150kb while 20d is close to 3.5mb
Basically what you need to do is to download the script, adjust the time for your timezone (-11 for Melbourne) and create a scheduled task to run the script every 30 minutes.
The result is a 30 minutes delayed image of our planet on your desktop. I have this going on my laptop for over a year now and every time I see an updated picture I can't stop but think that we live in such an amazing world after all...
$latestInfoUri = "http://himawari8-dl.nict.go.jp/himawari8/img/D531106/latest.json?" + (New-Guid).ToString();
Also, you can play around with precision levels (4d - 20d), which results in a crispier image. You would have to download more data though. The size for 4d is roughly 150kb while 20d is close to 3.5mb
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