Nearly two years ago (I think) I saw the exhaust plume of a similar launch from Simpson Springs. It was quite an exciting sight. Then, as now, there was a bright moon, but the plume was still highly visible. Worth seeing...and photographing? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@trilobyte.net> To: "utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Launch tomorrow (Thursday) morning | An unarmed Minuteman III missile is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg | tomorrow morning. The launch window is from 2:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. MDT. | | The missile's single unarmed re-entry vehicle is expected to travel | approximately 6,800 kilometers in about 30 minutes, hitting a | pre-determined target near Joe Bauman's old home at the Kwajalein | Missile Range in the Marshall Islands. | | I mention this because these launches are sometimes visible (sometimes | VERY visible) from northern Utah. I saw one launch from the Midvale | Harmons and another from SPOC. | | Patrick | | | | _______________________________________________ | Utah-Astronomy mailing list | Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com | http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy | Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com | | ______________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net | ______________________________________________________________________ | |