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Browsing Posts published on June 10, 2008

I can see you!

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Last night I snapped Lacrosse 5 as it made its way over my house.  Lacrosse 5 is one of the US military classified Spy Satellites (or DarkSats if you are feeling dramatic).  I wanted to get one long exposure with it arcing across the full frame, but a series of screw-ups meant I got three [...]

Damage to Pad 39a

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It looks like STS-124 launched without incident, no damage or issues being reported. It’s a shame the same can’t be said for Launch pad 39a at KSC which pretty much got blown apart (ok that’s a bit of an exaggeration) when Discovery took off.  Those are pieces of pad 39a splashing into the water below [...]

Who needs focus anyway?

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I snapped this a few nights ago (5/6/2008 00:01:55hrs 48sec exposure).  It’s a quite amazing flare from a NOSS Pair (3-4 I think).  It was purely by chance that I saw them rising fast in the southwest and I hit the shutter on the cam about half way through the flare.  As you can see, [...]