World sunlight map

[Modelworks]

Just sharing one of my favorite links, started looking at it about a month ago. Really helps to understand how night/day changes in other countries.
Clouds are updated every 3 hours .


http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html

 

[vshah]

there was a time program back in the day called Geochron that had a similar display...was pretty sweet. you could set the date and time and see the sunlight for that specific moment.

 

[coldmeat]

Can't you get this as a wallpaper?

 

[vshah]

would be awesome as a live wallpaper

 

[Modelworks]

Can't you get this as a wallpaper?

You could save the image as wallpaper but I'm not aware of any program that auto-updates. Someone could write something to fetch the image and update it, wouldn't be hard at all.

 

[coldmeat]

You could save the image as wallpaper but I'm not aware of any program that auto-updates. Someone could write something to fetch the image and update it, wouldn't be hard at all.

Ya there's a program that does it. I had it for a few days, can't remember what it's called though. Desktop Earth or something like that.

 

[Leros]

Living Earth Wallpaper

http://www.gimmegoody.com/

 

[bignateyk]

Living Earth Wallpaper

http://www.gimmegoody.com/

Is the light/darkness on the image from a real satellite image, or is it just an algorithm that runs that masks a night image and a day image of earth?

 

[Leros]

Is the light/darkness on the image from a real satellite image, or is it just an algorithm that runs that masks a night image and a day image of earth?

Considering it says "real time clouds" I imagine its legit satellite data or at least a computer mockup of real data.

 

[CPA]

It's amazing how long some of those cloud strings are.

 

[Analog]

how accurate are those night lights?

 

[darkxshade]

Living Earth Wallpaper

http://www.gimmegoody.com/

schweet, thanks

 

[drum]

I love that stuff. Thanks for the links!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

how accurate are those night lights?

every tv show and computer program seems to reach for some version of this composite satellite picture:

except for being a few years old, it should be totally accurate with respect to geography.

a little while ago, i was using this as my wallpaper:
http://www.desksoft.com/EarthView.htm

 

[IronWing]

World Sunshine Map showing hours of bright sunshine per year.
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