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