Sparky launch at dusk
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Today we went to a rocket launch event in the California Central Valley in a big field near Fresno. This is my son's 9 feet tall rocket taking off at dusk, 20 minutes after sunset. The rocket has a sparky motor, the sparkles are burning titanium flakes.
Some info for rocketry enthusiasts: The October Skies event was organized by Tripoli Central California (TCC). The rocket flew on a K815 sparky motor, reaching 4.3K feet, with dual deployment, and two flight computers for redundancy. We were in a hurry to get the rocket ready, so did not put in the GoPro and GPS. The big parachute made it easy to spot the rocket on the way down. We walked about half a mile in that direction and found it immediately.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8556_hdr1bal1h
Sparky launch at dusk
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
Today we went to a rocket launch event in the California Central Valley in a big field near Fresno. This is my son's 9 feet tall rocket taking off at dusk, 20 minutes after sunset. The rocket has a sparky motor, the sparkles are burning titanium flakes.
Some info for rocketry enthusiasts: The October Skies event was organized by Tripoli Central California (TCC). The rocket flew on a K815 sparky motor, reaching 4.3K feet, with dual deployment, and two flight computers for redundancy. We were in a hurry to get the rocket ready, so did not put in the GoPro and GPS. The big parachute made it easy to spot the rocket on the way down. We walked about half a mile in that direction and found it immediately.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8556_hdr1bal1h