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08/29/2009 12:47:59 AM · #76 |
I did close with my 70-200 handheld and 30 second exposures with 17-55 on tripod. Only loaded the wide card so far. This is a cool 30 seconds from "typical FLA neighborhood". You can even see a few neighbors looking on if you look closely. Not stellar, but I am more than 100 miles from the cape, so I'm still kinda tickled.
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08/29/2009 12:53:24 AM · #77 |
| DAMN IT, I forgot all about this tonight. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH |
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08/29/2009 01:01:59 AM · #78 |
STS 128 launch
These shots are a couple from my 20 minute drive home from work, and the shuttle launch from here, about 100 miles south west of the Cape.
 
In the last few, I slowed shutter speed a lot, so camera shake became very noticeable. It was just a great minute with my grandson looking with my binocs, and me shooting away and looking between shots. I love the sudden glow in the clouds when they light off those boosters.
Message edited by author 2009-08-29 01:13:38.
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08/29/2009 10:36:49 AM · #79 |
Sounds like you enjoyed the launch, Waddy. I'm very glad I got to see it. Likely the last night launch we'll see.
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08/29/2009 11:53:53 AM · #80 |
I think that you may be right Cindi, about the last night Shuttle launch. I believe that there are only 6 more launches in the schedule. I am wondering how the new Ares launch vehicle will look, since it uses the same solid rocket booster technology as the Shuttle.
I remember seeing the Saturn V rockets during the moon race, and they were at least 4 or 5 times more fire than the shuttle. They lit up the ground like orange starlight here, even 100 miles away, but that was partly because it was so dark here back then.
I love seeing a good launch, esp if I can get close to it.
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02/06/2010 02:21:49 PM · #81 |
I'm just here to revive this old thread and ask if anyone is going to be up to photograph the Space Shuttle launch in the morning, Sunday Feb 7 at 4:39 AM?
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02/06/2010 02:44:04 PM · #82 |
| If its scrubbed for a week, ill get to see it live with my camera in hand. |
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02/06/2010 09:20:19 PM · #83 |
Bump for the night crowd.
The launch is still in the GO mode at this time, with liftoff set for 4:39 AM.
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02/07/2010 01:41:45 AM · #84 |
is that eastern time? Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Bump for the night crowd.
The launch is still in the GO mode at this time, with liftoff set for 4:39 AM. |
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02/07/2010 01:48:30 AM · #85 |
Here's the NASA link for you. Yes, eastern time.
Shuttle Launch & Landing, NASA
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02/07/2010 01:51:46 AM · #86 |
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02/07/2010 04:57:53 AM · #87 |
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02/07/2010 05:50:39 AM · #88 |
I was ready, but no launch. : (
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02/07/2010 11:43:58 PM · #89 |
Redo, tonight, Monday morning 4:14 AM EST. Clouds stopped the count last night about 10 minutes before launch. I think that I will be shooting it if I can wake up and get out to my fav viewing site.
Here's the link to the NASA launch blog;
NASA Launch Blog
It gets updated in real time as events unfold.
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02/07/2010 11:55:42 PM · #90 |
| how does the weather look there? It will be 10:30 PM here will be watching it on TV if it happens. |
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02/08/2010 04:10:49 AM · #91 |
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02/08/2010 05:37:32 AM · #92 |
   full frame before crop.
The launch looked pretty nice from here, 130 miles (208 km ) away. Here's another of the south eastern sky, with the moon and scorpio, right after the launch.
Did anyone else get any pix?
Message edited by author 2010-02-08 05:53:55.
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02/08/2010 05:57:03 AM · #93 |
| I watched it on TV and as an added bonus, I talked to my sister on the phone during the launch. She lives in Orlando, She was out in her back yard and I could hear the shuttle taking off over the phone. That was a thrill in itself. We are trying to plan a trip to Orlando with hopes of catching one of the final launches. Hopefully we will get lucky. |
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02/08/2010 06:07:57 AM · #94 |
That thing is amazingly loud. Orlando is 50 miles west of the launch site. I am happy that you got to hear it.
I have been at the cape for 4 shuttle launches, including the first one in 1981. We camped out for 3 days waiting for that one to go up. 
I arrived at my fav viewing site this morning just in time to spot the liftoff glow while I was putting my camera on the tripod, so I was actually pretty lucky to have pix. This is supposed to be the final night launch of the Shuttle, so I wanted to see it as it happened. I still remember watching the Saturn 5's during the Apollo era. I was a teen then. The flame plume on the 5's was about 3 or 4 times the size of the one with the Space Shuttle.
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