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Re:MTG-I2 First Images by peri-cl on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:15PM (#50400316)
This is the right answer. It's a European GEO satellite that's approaching its assigned longitude of 9.5° East (~ Germany). This is more or less the only viewpoint of Earth it will *ever* have; that's how geosync works.

https://www.esa.int/articles/about-us/directorates/earth-obs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

Here's a table of (I think?) all of the GEO weather satellites and their positions,

https://space.oscar.wmo.int/satellitestatuses/status

(If you follow up on any of these, you can find real-time views of the Earth from different vantage points).