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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
I have a pretty much uninterrupted view looking ESE and there wasn't much to see. Basically the squiggly take off plume but no rocket flare or vapor trail. Would have been much better at night. Perhaps if someone had a decent telephoto lens the rocket may be visible.
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I could see the rocket flare quite clearly and the vapor trail pretty clearly until it hit kind of a secondary cloud layer. I also took some video and stills of it. I shot it hand-held using a Nikon P900 with a 2000mm equivalent lens. The results weren't pretty but it was still pretty cool to me. I'd post it but I only see how to add links to shots stored on the 'net and I don't store my images on the 'net.
I was shooting video and once or twice hit the shutter release to grab a low-resolution (1920x1080) still image. I wish I'd done it earlier as the video shows more detail than the stills I grabbed. In the video, you can see the shape of the triple first stages plus the second stage. I watched and tried to video the night launch of the Atlas V a couple of weeks ago and expected it to light up the sky more and all you really saw of that one was a bright spark going up in the sky. Maybe it was cloudier or something.
I also took a still zoomed way OUT to show the neighborhood with the smoke trail and plume in it to send to space geek friends back in Michigan and North Carolina to show that we really CAN see launches from our houses here. Another perquisite of living in The Villages!