Request in for floater......

#21 Postby **dixiebreeze** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:35 pm

Derecho wrote:I'm always a bit mystified with the obsesssion over "changing the floater" when GHCC works perfectly well and you zoom it yourself.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

Good point, Derecho, guess the IR Floater is a hard habit to break. That said, I think I've relocated my earlier contact, so maybe we'll have a refocus soon.

#22 Postby **jasons2k** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:37 pm

Derecho wrote:I'm always a bit mystified with the obsesssion over "changing the floater" when GHCC works perfectly well and you zoom it yourself.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

Yeah, I use GHCC myself. I never liked how the floater moves on loops. It's hard to keep any point of reference. Movement (and wobbles hehe) are much easier to discern on GHCC with Lat/Lon turned on IMO.

#23 Postby **Pebbles** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:37 pm

Oh I STAND CORRECTED!!! Dixiebreeze has connections!!!

*Bows in reverent worship of Dixie*
:notworthy:

Dixiebreeze... your rock!! LOL Could you tell them Christine AKA Pebbles also requests the change. Not that I'll make any impact or anything

#24 Postby **dixiebreeze** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:48 pm

Pebbles wrote:Oh I STAND CORRECTED!!! Dixiebreeze has connections!!!

*Bows in reverent worship of Dixie*

Dixiebreeze... your rock!! LOL Could you tell them Christine AKA Pebbles also requests the change. Not that I'll make any impact or anything

Hey friend, "pebbles" goes well with a "rock." We'll team up for the floater. :lol:

#25 Postby **bvigal** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:54 pm

[quote="dixiebreeze]
It's not really a big mystery. I did have a personal contact at Camp Springs, Md., but he is no longer there and it's pot luck re: the contacts. When Brian was there, the response was almost instantaneous.[/quote]

Brian H. left??? I haven't spoken to him since last September. Oh rats! He was really sweet!!

I'd love to see 92L on floater, being that we are so much closer to it here than the mainland. I want to watch the Dvorak loop.

#26 Postby **dixiebreeze** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:58 pm

He may be back, bvgal, I'm checking.

wxcrazytwo · #27 Postby **wxcrazytwo** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:04 pm

wxcrazytwo wrote:How do you do that anyways?

Okay, let me say it in plain english "How do you point a floater to where you want it to be?"

#28 Postby **Pebbles** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:07 pm

dixiebreeze wrote:
Pebbles wrote:Oh I STAND CORRECTED!!! Dixiebreeze has connections!!!

*Bows in reverent worship of Dixie*

Dixiebreeze... your rock!! LOL Could you tell them Christine AKA Pebbles also requests the change. Not that I'll make any impact or anything

Hey friend, "pebbles" goes well with a "rock." We'll team up for the floater.

LOL typos and me *snickers* btw YOU ROCK.. :tease:

#29 Postby **joseph01** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:09 pm

wxcrazytwo wrote:
wxcrazytwo wrote:How do you do that anyways?

Okay, let me say it in plain english "How do you point a floater to where you want it to be?"

It must be a secret among the initiates.

#30 Postby **Pebbles** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:26 pm

dixiebreeze wrote:
jschlitz wrote:
Thunder44 wrote:
dixiebreeze wrote:Looks like I'm not so lucky today, but maybe they're waiting until Invest 92 is past 40

It's already past 50W. Anybody can email them to change the floater, but how long it takes for them to do it, is pretty much anyone's guess.

OK, would someone in the know, or Dixiebreeze, please clarify what this process is? Who is getting emailed? Are they actually moving a satellite in orbit based on a civilian email request? I'm just asking...I know it's EXPENSIVE to move satellites around and it just bemuses me how someone can send an email to NASA or the NWS or whomever and ask to move a floater around. An explanation is much appreciated (and it looks like others are wondering the same thing). Thanks so much!

It's not really a big mystery. I did have a personal contact at Camp Springs, Md., but he is no longer there and it's pot luck re: the contacts. When Brian was there, the response was almost instantaneous.

artist wrote:plus all that is being requested is the image be recentered NOT for them to move the satellite!

#31 Postby **bvigal** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:27 pm

Q: How do you point a floater?

I've never really asked, specifically. But here's an educated guess... You change the software script to grab a different set of raw data which feeds into the graphic and displays the picture.

#32 Postby **Pebbles** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:30 pm

All the floater is a zoomed up portion of a sat loop

Sanibel · #33 Postby **Sanibel** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:58 pm

I don't understand why the Floater should be focused on Gert's landfall point of several days ago when an active wave is happening elsewhere? If NHC can't hack it, perhaps they could assign someone from Storm2k to do the positioning?

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