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Radar, aircraft, Meshtastic, satellites and space weather over the Canaries.

Map: satellite, radar, calima, aircraft

Switch layers with the buttons. Slider: last 2 hours, every 10 minutes. Clouds: Meteosat MTG (EUMETSAT), infrared at night. Dust from the satellite: pink or magenta. Rain: RainViewer. Calima: CAMS model. Aircraft: ADS-B. Meshtastic: meshmap.net. Calima in the next 3 days, peak: 183 µg/m³, calima.

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25-50 µg/m³50-100 light calima100-200 calima200+ strong

Aircraft now (ADS-B)

8 aircraft in range. Data from our SDR panel (adsb.lol, ODbL licence), refreshed every 20 s. Squawks 7500, 7600, 7700 are shown in red.

FlightTypeAltitudeSpeedTFS
AEA025B78835975 ft478.3 kt101 NM
AEA057B78935000 ft492.4 kt103 NM
AEA041B78934975 ft488.2 kt173 NM
LVL2602A33238000 ft484.8 kt178 NM
LVL2605A33235000 ft464.8 kt182 NM
AEA042B78940000 ft502.2 kt207 NM
AFR454B77W31000 ft496.6 kt284 NM
TAP087A33935000 ft465.8 kt292 NM

Meshtastic network

8 nodes around the Canaries that publish their position via MQTT. Data: meshmap.net, refreshed every 30 min. Bright dot: node seen within 24 h.

NodeHardwareRoleSeen
EA8DTJ_BASE 8DTJHELTEC_WSL_V3client2 min ago
Anubis《▪︎▪︎▪︎》 📡NRF52_PROMICRO_DIYrouter6 min ago
EA8DLF NORTE 2 NOR2NRF52_PROMICRO_DIYclient_base10 min ago
PMI93📱 PMIT_ECHOclient_mute31 min ago
Panza Burro 🇮🇨 PNZASEEED_SOLAR_NODEclient1 h ago
NEXUS 4 8TK4RAK4631client1 h ago
Puertito2-DOQ 1c62 1c62NRF52_PROMICRO_DIYclient6 h ago
EA8CDG CdgfHELTEC_V3client7 h ago

Satellite passes over Tenerife

Next 36 hours, only passes higher than 20° above the horizon. The ISS transmits APRS on 145.825 MHz; the Meteor-M2 satellites send LRPT images in the 137 MHz band. Orbits: CelesTrak, calculations: PyEphem.

SatelliteStartMaxDirectionDuration
Meteor-M2 4Thu 01.10 04:2533°NNE → S15 min
Meteor-M2 4Thu 01.10 06:0522°N → SW14 min
Meteor-M2 3Thu 01.10 11:1877°NNE → S16 min
ISSThu 01.10 11:2635°SSW → NE11 min
Meteor-M2 4Thu 01.10 15:4028°SE → N15 min
Meteor-M2 4Thu 01.10 17:2026°SSW → NNW15 min
ISSThu 01.10 19:3721°NNW → ESE10 min
ISS · visible to the naked eyeThu 01.10 21:1422°WNW → SSE10 min
Meteor-M2 3Thu 01.10 22:3161°SSE → N15 min
Meteor-M2 4Fri 02.10 05:4336°N → SW15 min
Meteor-M2 3Fri 02.10 10:5543°NNE → S15 min
ISSFri 02.10 12:1626°WSW → NNE11 min

Space weather

Kp index now
Kp 0.7
24 h max: 1.3, quiet: good HF conditions

Data: NOAA SWPC. Kp 5 or more is a geomagnetic storm (G scale).

TFS airband watch (SDR)

Our SDR receiver on Tenerife listens to the 118-137 MHz airband and ADS-B transponders. It looks for unusual situations (mayday, pan-pan, emergency squawks). We do not publish the audio itself.

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