Special thanks to NOAA STAR and the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch
This list will hopefully be expanded in the future. New images are downloaded approximately every 20 minutes to an hour (depending on the view), giving an up-to-date, high resolution view of the Earth from space.Ĭurrently, the app provides 10 views of the Earth from 3 different geostationary weather satellites: Himawari-8, GOES-17 (West), and GOES-16 (East). SpaceEye is an open source desktop app which sets live, publicly available satellite imagery as your desktop background. SpaceEye: Live satellite imagery for your desktop background | GitHub
#SATELLITE EYES MAC INSTALL#
Install Location: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\space-eyeĬ:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\space-eye\SpaceEyeĬ:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Ĭ:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Ĭ:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Ĭ:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Ĭomputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\fb220ca6-1756-55cc-a3c9-f2050d40b816 Total amount of unzipped installation files: 211.41 MB It was not to my article clearly states that it is for “wallpaper” use, so it may be suitable for those who prefer that taste.ĭownload file and installation realities:ĭownload File Size: 58.79 MB (61651722 Bytes) The amount of resources measured by “Resource Monitor” was negligible, but the installation file size was large (as large as a web browser). In short, it is just a “wallpaper” application. Therefore, it is a static image that is not real-time, and it is not suitable for weather forecasting applications, as it does not show “how the clouds are changing” at all. The “live” images from satellites are updated in about 20 minutes to an hour. I love “John’s Background Switcher”, so I can’t share it with it, and I can’t switch to other wallpapers until I quit SpaceEye.
#SATELLITE EYES MAC MANUAL#
Just by opening the download file, the installation is automatically executed and “installation completed” with no manual intervention possible, and the application is executed and applied as a wallpaper. If you want something more powerful in the wallpaper department, check out Lively Wallpaper. While it may lack options to customize the image's resolution, the time-interval to download new photos, SpaceEye provides a user-friendly way to get some gorgeous wallpapers. The program is also available for Linux and Mac computers. You can download it from the Microsoft Store, or the regular installer from the project's GitHub page, and I like having the choice between the two. It's not a dealbreaker, but as someone who prefers Windows' default theme, I'm a bit disappointed. This is like the 5th app or so that I've reviewed here recently, that doesn't have a good icon for the Window Light theme. The directory that you're looking for is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\space-eye\downloaded_images. But you can head to the AppData folder and get them yourselves. The other problem is that the program doesn't let you save the downloaded images directly. You can't select the resolution of the wallpaper, or the monitor on which you want to use the background on. There are a couple of issues that could bother people.
#SATELLITE EYES MAC UPDATE#
Do remember that while you can close the app after setting one of its images as your background, it needs to be running to update the wallpaper automatically. To close SpaceEye, hit the menu button and then click the Quit option in the bottom left corner.
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