Tonight's Vandenberg launch (8:24-8:40pm MDT)
In follow-up to Patrick's daily news announcement for tonight's 8:24pm-8:40 MDT launch window for a Minotaur I rocket from Vandenberg, here's a good max potential photo at 1,500 miles for what might be seen - http://www.spacearchive.info/jawsat.jpg from - http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbview.htm Patrick, any recommendations for photo exposure settings, assuming the weather holds? Brian Webb's "Photographing Vandenberg Launch" website - http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbphoto.htm I ran a great circle calculator for an azimuth of the direction of VAFB - http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm - and got an azimuth of 231.5 degrees and a distance of about 1020 kilometers. Thanks for the head's up, Patrick. - Canopus56(Kurt) P.S. - The VAFB Unclassified launch schedule page (with the "official" current launch window) http://mocc.vandenberg.af.mil/launchsched.asp Vandenberg AFB: 34° 42' 33" (34.709°) N, 120° 36' 00" (120.600°) W UT - Salt Lake City: 40° 45' 39" N, 111° 53' 25" W __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
Canopus56 wrote:
In follow-up to Patrick's daily news announcement for tonight's 8:24pm-8:40 MDT launch window for a Minotaur I rocket from Vandenberg, here's a good max potential photo at 1,500 miles for what might be seen -
http://www.spacearchive.info/jawsat.jpg from - http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbview.htm
Patrick, any recommendations for photo exposure settings, assuming the weather holds?
Sorry I'm too late to give suggestions. A group of us flew to Wendover for dinner and I didn't get back to the house until just before the launch. (OT but thought provoking: We flew over this long ago soggy landing: http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/WETPLANE.JPG .) Compared to the last just-after-sunset launch this was wasn't much to talk about. Unlike last time's spectacular light show this one was nothing more than a large faint glow on the horizon. Actually, it was so unlike the last one that I'm still waiting for confirmation that what I saw was the launch. Did anyone else see it? Patrick
Channel 2 had pictures of what looked like a wind-contorted contrail that they said was from the Vandenberg launch. Hard to beleive if what you say is true - only a faint glow on the horizon. --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Canopus56 wrote:
In follow-up to Patrick's daily news announcement for tonight's 8:24pm-8:40 MDT launch window for a Minotaur I rocket from Vandenberg, here's a good max potential photo at 1,500 miles for what might be seen -
http://www.spacearchive.info/jawsat.jpg from - http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbview.htm
Patrick, any recommendations for photo exposure settings, assuming the weather holds?
Sorry I'm too late to give suggestions. A group of us flew to Wendover for dinner and I didn't get back to the house until just before the launch.
(OT but thought provoking: We flew over this long ago soggy landing: http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/WETPLANE.JPG .)
Compared to the last just-after-sunset launch this was wasn't much to talk about.
Unlike last time's spectacular light show this one was nothing more than a large faint glow on the horizon.
Actually, it was so unlike the last one that I'm still waiting for confirmation that what I saw was the launch.
Did anyone else see it?
Patrick
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--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
[T]his one was nothing more than a large faint glow on the horizon. Actually, it was so unlike the last one that I'm still waiting for confirmation that what I saw was the launch. Did anyone else see it?
I watched from above the Avenues in SLC from 8:20pm - 9:00pm, scanning with binoculars. Saw nothing. - Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
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