Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>:
Talk about being in the right place at the right time...
I was told it's "F8 and be there". That photo has generated lots of interest including a fellow down a Johnson Space Center, from what I gather it is the only non-governmental photo of the debris field and we were the only people to witness the impact (which I missed !!) Two of our group saw a fingernail sized flash but they were using binoculars and I had a 770mm William Optics 80mm scope (w/ 1.4X multiplier) on a D200. Once they spotted the dot, I picked it up and shot 4 frames not believing it was the satellite. I looked up to see if I could spot it as it was bright and lost it. We noticed that the 3.67M AEOS scope was tracking the dot to the north and to the horizon, this whole event might have been a minute long. Then we watched the eclipse ...................... aloha Rob