[EdFNJ]

Anyone get a good long lens photo of the launch from here? Was able to see it for a few seconds but my iPhone obviously doesn't have a long enough lens to see anything.

My favorite moment was the live streaming image of the Tesla with the earth behind it. Such genius.




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[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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[JerryLBell]

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.

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!

[rexxfan]

Vapor trail below the cloud and (at that point, very small) rocket flare above ...

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[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by JerryLBell

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!

Sounds great. You should try Dropbox. Can I send you my email by PM and you can send a still? Love to see the video. That's exactly why I wanted it.

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[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by rexxfan

Vapor trail below the cloud and (at that point, very small) rocket flare above ...

Cool! That's pretty much what we saw. We clearly saw (for a very short time) the red flare but it quickly got blocked by a cloud.




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[SIRE1]

I decided I didn't want to miss this one so I drove over to New Smyrna Beach. Had a FANTASTIC view when it finally went up. Could see rocket shortly after lift off till it went out of sight. Then sound wave came in and could hear the roar. And to top it off, a little while later we saw the twin flames of the boosters coming back in for a landing. Sure glad I drove over there for the afternoon. Reminded me of the Shuttle launches. Unfortunately I took video with my camera so I can't post my photos here.

[JerryLBell]

I just checked out DropBox and they are a paid service. I'm not really interested in that. The video clocks in at over 80 Mb, so that's a big attachment to your email. Depending on your email provider, that might overwhelm it. PM me if you're still interested.

[rexxfan]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

Cool! That's pretty much what we saw. We clearly saw (for a very short time) the red flare but it quickly got blocked by a cloud.

The flare was very clearly visible when it was below the cloud. I just wasn't fast enough to snap the pic until it had gone above the cloud. This was taken from the Polo Grounds.
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