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◍ Aether Quantum — OSINT Globe
A spinnable 3-D globe of live, public open-source intelligence. Drag to spin · scroll to zoom · click a pin for detail. Public data only, one-way.
🧭The basics
Turn layers on and off with the chips along the bottom. Click any pin to load its detail in the right-hand panel. A layer that needs a lot of data (radar, cameras) shows a small “please wait” indicator while it loads.
⌖ Crosshair & Recenter. The crosshair marks the centre — the point “here” refers to. To aim: click an empty spot on the globe, then press ⌖ Recenter and that spot rotates to the centre. Now a Windy webcam survey or a satellite’s look-angles read from there. Only an empty-globe click sets your aim point; clicking a pin doesn’t move it.
🗂️The layers
- 📰 News · ⚔ Conflict — geolocated headlines from major outlets; click for a readable summary + source link.
- 🚨 Alerts · 🏛 FEMA · 🌍 Quakes — NOAA/NWS warnings, federal disaster declarations, USGS earthquakes.
- 🌧 Radar · ☁ Clouds — precipitation radar and infrared cloud tops reprojected onto the globe.
- 📻 Broadcast · 📡 Comms — internet radio stations and ham repeaters; the broadcast player docks on the right.
- 🛰 Cyber — live attacker probes hitting our honeypot, geolocated with the paths they tried.
- ⚡ Lightning · 🌒 Sky — live lightning strikes (Blitzortung network; fresh strikes flash and fade over ~5 min) and a day/night terminator with the sun, moon & a starfield.
- 📶 WiFi · ☢ Radiation — WiGLE network lookups and a Safecast radiation heat-wash.
- 📷 Cameras · 🛰 Satellites — the two big ones, below.
📷Live cameras
Two sources, toggled separately:
- 🔥 ALERT fire cams mountaintop wildfire-detection cameras across the western US — orange pins, no setup.
- 🌐 Windy webcams public webcams worldwide — fuchsia pins, pulled near the ⌖ crosshair (aim first, then “Load cameras in view”).
Hover a pin for an instant live thumbnail — the quick way to read a row of cameras stacked along a highway. Click for the full snapshot and a link to the live source. Fire-cam snapshots refresh about every 30 seconds.
Cameras © their operators. Webcams powered by Windy.com.
🛰Satellite tracking
Real satellite positions, computed live in your browser from public orbital data (TLE + SGP4). Turn on the layer, then pick groups with the chips: 🛰 ISS 📻 Ham 🌦 Weather 🛰 GOES 📍 GPS 📡 GEO 🌐 Starlink — Starlink is off by default (it’s a big, fast swarm).
Click a satellite for orbit data (altitude, speed, period, inclination), look-angles from your crosshair (azimuth, elevation, above/below horizon), the next pass for low-orbit birds, and — the useful part — how to tie in: the actual frequencies to hear or work it. Geostationary birds show a dish read-out (az/el/skew), the fixed aim a satellite installer would set.
For radio operators: the amateur birds (SO-50, the AO-9x FM sats, the ISS) list uplink/downlink and tone; NOAA weather sats give the 137 MHz APT frequency for an SDR; GOES gives the HRIT downlink. The globe tells you what’s overhead and when — the card tells you how to receive it.
🔒About the data
Everything here is public and flows one way — the globe reads open sources and displays them; nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere. Feeds are cached briefly to be gentle on the sources. Data: USGS · NOAA/NWS · OpenFEMA · GDELT · Radio-Browser · hearham · ALERTCalifornia · Windy.com · CelesTrak · Safecast · Blitzortung · Natural Earth.