Live Orbital Wallpapers

If you’re looking for an interesting image that you can use as a wallpaper, it is worth remembering that there are numerous satellites in orbit around the Earth that can capture and deliver pictures of the planet and the Sun.

Live Orbital Wallpapers is a Windows 10 application that can download these images, set them as your desktop background and update them continuously. It can deliver content from multiple satellites, but it offers few customization options.

The application allows you to grab images from a number of satellites: the Japanese Himawari-8, the Russian Elektro-L2 and the Meteosat SEVIRI, as well as NASA’s GOES East and Sun Dynamics Observatory.

However, while images from Himawari-8, Elektro-L2 and the Sun Dynamics Observatory look great on your desktop, the others are not exactly suitable as wallpapers.

The great thing about Live Orbital Wallpapers is that the application is remarkably simple to set up. Once installed, you only need to select the source, as the image will be fit to your desktop and updated automatically.

Unfortunately, though, users do not have the option of changing the update interval or resolution, zooming in or out, and adding an offset to avoid seeing images of the Earth when it is not illuminated.

In short, Live Orbital Wallpapers is a good choice if you prefer not to spend a lot of time configuring various parameters in order to get everything just right. Some users will not appreciate the lack of advanced customization options, but novices should like the application’s intuitive design.

It is worth admiring the fact that the program can grab images from a number of different sources, but we would prefer it if all the available pictures were wallpaper-worthy.