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Himawari 8 Satellite New Tab Page by Dominik Moritz

Experience the latest image of Earth from the Himawari 8 satellite every time you open a new tab.

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Preview of Himawari 8 true color images.Settings page.Change the staellite source.Preview of Himawari 8 infrared images.GOES-16 image.DSCOVR Epic camera enhanced.DSCOVR Epic camera.
About this extension
This extension displays the latest image of our planet Earth as seen from the Himawari 8 Satellite every time you open a new tab. The satellite has been deployed by the Japan Meteorological Agency and takes photographs of Earth every 10 minutes. The extension also supports images from the GOES, DSCOVR, and Meteosat satellites.

To change the satellite, go into settings or click on the cog symbol in the lower right corner of the new tab page.
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Development happens at https://github.com/domoritz/himawari-8-chrome.
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This add-on needs to:

  • Access your data for rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu
  • Access your data for himawari8-dl.nict.go.jp
  • Access your data for epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Version
0.21.0
Size
493.43 KB
Last updated
10 months ago (Mar 28, 2022)
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License
The BSD License
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Release notes for 0.21.0
0.21.0 Update RAMMB URL format. Move to manifest v3 for Chrome.
0.20.0 Support natural variant for GOES 17 west.
0.19.1, 0.19.2 Fix Himawari base URL.
0.19.0 Disable unreliable image cache in extension.
0.18.1 Fix GOES URLs. Thanks to @mattijn.
0.18.0 Remove d3-request and d3-queue and instead use fetch and async
0.17.0 Add GOES 17
0.16.1 Store large images with reduced quality until they fit
0.16.0 Add Meteosat images thanks to @erget
0.15.0 Add GOES 16 natural image thanks to @TheNeuralBit
0.14.0 Remove GOES 13 and 15 as NASA does not support them anymore
0.13.1 Faster time ago update
0.12.0 Improve animation initialization
0.11.1 Faster animation
0.11.0 Add GOES 16 and animation
0.10.0 Firefox support
0.9.0 Fix web extension compatibility. Immediately load new image when settings change.
0.8.0 Compatible with web extensions for Firefox
0.6.1, 0.7.0: Fix GOES caching
0.6.0: Add GOES 13 and GOES 15 images (see options). Fix issues with DSCOVR.
0.5.0: Fix issues with DSCOVR. Add enhanced images for DSCOVR.
0.4.3: Fix issue with latest date for himawari color image
0.4.2: Fix DSCOVR EPIC base url
0.4.0: Add DSCOVR images and link to explore online
0.3.2: Improve styling
0.3.1: Fix issue with options.html and options.js missing
0.3.0: Add option to choose infrared image
0.2.5: New proxy server
0.2.2: Better layout
0.2.1: Faster loading, offline support
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