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