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From a pro meteorologist friend:

Check this website for some true images from the blackout. It's curious, the image that the fake came from is at the bottom, as a comparison. It says it was a cloud-free composite taken over a period of a couple weeks. It appears to be a cropped version of whatever the fake came from, because only the contiguous U.S. is shown.

Unfortunately, the fake image is a doctored image from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's mosaic of North America. How do you know it is a fake? No clouds across 3,000 miles of continent; the blacked-out area is darker than regions that have sparse nighttime lighting (Arizona, New Mexico, Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean); sections of Albany, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts had power, but you don't see them illuminated in this image; and finally, the GeoStar satellite is a communications satellite, not an imaging satellite.