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Here's the full series of properly processed pictures of the Falcon Heavy rocket launch and twin booster landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The sonic booms at the end are amazing!
I re-created a multiple image composite showing the trail of NASA's satellite launch earlier this week, deleting the extra images of the background stars and foreground, so everything is more crisp and the result isn't so busy with star trails.
Each of the individual exposures in this sequence was 30 seconds, so the 8 shown in the flight path in this sequence represent 4 minutes of flight. The 3 solid fuel rocket boosters you can just see in this image, dropping near the end of the first and brightest segment to the right, were dropped at 1:30 into the flight, so this sequence of 30 second images shows roughly 1:00 to 5:00 in the overall launch sequence.
I used an intervalometer to capture a photo every second during the launch. At this point Orion had just risen its own length in just over 3 seconds, and with 2.5 million pounds of thrust, it was accelerating fast!
This is a composite shot covering four minutes of NASA's OCO-2 satellite's journey into space after its launch on a Delta II rocket.
You can see the solid rocket boosters separating and falling towards the right side of the rocket's trail.
2:58 a.m. local (5:58 a.m. EDT; 0958 GMT)
T+plus 1 minute, 50 seconds. "The ATK-made solid rocket boosters have jettisoned from the first stage. They remained attached until the rocket cleared off-shore oil rigs."
You can also clearly see where the second stage ignites towards the left:
3:01 a.m.
T+plus 4 minutes, 39 seconds. MECO. The first stage main engine cutoff is confirmed and the spent stage has been jettisoned.
T+plus 4 minutes, 44 seconds. The Delta's second stage has ignited! The engine is up and running.
T+plus 4 minutes, 51 seconds. The rocket's nose cone enclosing the satellite payload has been jettisoned.
I started capturing thirty-second exposures at 10:32 pm and had it continue during and past the launch, to 4:10 am. I was shooting a time-lapse sequence on a star-tracking mount, having the camera follow the Milky Way across the sky to where the satellite would launch at 3 am.
This composite image uses nine of those photos, to capture the foreground well lit during the initial liftoff, The sky and Milky Way in the image with the rocket and solid boosters falling away, plus seven more flight segments. The pieces were assembled in the free StarStaX software.
The Delta II rocket drops its solid fuel booster rockets during NASA's OCO-2 satellite launch last week.
2:58 a.m. local (5:58 a.m. EDT; 0958 GMT)
T+plus 1 minute, 50 seconds. "The ATK-made solid rocket boosters have jettisoned from the first stage. They remained attached until the rocket cleared off-shore oil rigs."
NASA's OCO-2 satellite launched from Vandenberg AFB shortly before 3 am this morning, turning south over the Santa Barbara Channel as it headed out to space.
This camera was shooting 30 second exposures at f/2,8, ISO 6400, 20mm focal length.
Or is it?
A boat down range delayed the launch, then some valves failed to register in the correct state. Bottom line, they'll try again at 7:05 EST Friday December 5.
(Nice to finally sit down and see one of my DSLR photos!)
The Saturn II rocket carrying NASA's OCO-2 satellite put on the best fireworks show this week! The the rocket's three solid fuel boosters were incredibly bright, lighting up the landscape as if it were day. This is a 30 second exposure of the satellite on its way into space Tuesday morning. It took the rocket approximately 1.5 minutes to reach this height. The smoke remained in the air and spotlights around the launch pad illuminated where the rocket emerged from the coastal fog.
This is approximately 60 seconds into launch, as the rocket turns south following the launch at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc, California.
15 second exposure, f/4, ISO 6400, 70mm focal length..
and a few Nikon cameras stand at the ready.
SpaceX CRS-6 Falcon 9 launch - Cape Canaveral, Florida USA
This was displayed about 30 feet up in the air at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, so I captured it on my iPhone and darkened the shadows to see if I could give it an "in space" look.
Time-lapse footage of the launch this week of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which will take 1 million measurements daily at a resolution of one square mile.
On my slow Internet connection this plays faster with HD switched off.
Lori Hibbet photographs the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Satellite shortly after launch in the early morning hours of July 2, 2014.
This 15 second exposure starts around 4 minutes, 40 seconds into the OCO-2 satellite launch last July, as the cover is jettisoned off the satellite, the Delta II's first stage cuts off and the second stage ignites:
3:01 a.m.
T+plus 4 minutes, 39 seconds. MECO. The first stage main engine cutoff is confirmed and the spent stage has been jettisoned.
T+plus 4 minutes, 44 seconds. The Delta's second stage has ignited! The engine is up and running.
T+plus 4 minutes, 51 seconds. The rocket's nose cone enclosing the satellite payload has been jettisoned.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong
"I hope my legs don't break, walking on the moon" - Sting
At the point of initial ignition, down in the coastal fog at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc, California.
15 second exposure, f/4, ISO 6400 at 70mm focal length.
SpaceX CRS-6 - Cape Canaveral Florida, Kennedy Space Center. #NASASocial
SpaceX CRS-6 is the sixth of at least 12 missions to the International Space Station that SpaceX will fly for NASA under
the CRS contract.
Inside the cockpit of the P-3, which is NASA's workhorse for airborne science research. This P3 has been modernized with an updated cockpit.
NASA Social - Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
I've stood within feet of a space shuttle before, but seeing one suspended and being able to walk around and under it gives you a whole new appreciation for its scale. There's a lot of room for cargo and little for crew. #Orion #NASAsocial #Atlantis
The nearly-full moon rose by Orion a little after 3:30 pm on Tuesday December 3, the day before the scheduled launch, but the clouds and haze made it difficult to see until 3:50 -pm or so.
NASA's Saturn II rocket drops 3 solid fuel booster rockets 1:30 into the OCO-2 satellite launch over the California Coast off of Santa Barbara early last Wednesday morning. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory will provide 100,000 real-time measurements of carbon dioxide with a 1 mile sensor resolution.
NASA's Orion sits on the launch pad illuminated by spotlights at 6:30 am on its launch day, December 5, 2014.
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