Zoom of the observatories area in Northen Chile with 2x2km resolution

Source: NOAA / NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research

Cloud Top (8.4µm) with 15mn lag

Site: Latitude, Longitude

Chajnantor: [-23.02,-67.75]
Paranal: [-24.63,-70.40]
La Silla: [-29.25,-70.73]
Tololo-Pachon: [-30.23,-70.72]
Casleo: [-31.80,-69.25]

Water Vapor (6.9µm, left), Cirrus (1.37µm, center) and cloudiness (GeoColor: True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night, right) with 45mn lag

Tonight time lapse and archives since 02 February 2018.

A higher resolution channel 2 (0.64µm, 0.5x0.5km pixel) reference image for checking site orography

Check also the NOAA site for other GOES16 full disk channels.

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Satellite Imagery: GOES16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)