From Richmond VA the initial ascent to orbit was easily naked eye visible as a diffuse glow traversing the eastern sky. The main engine cutoff was slightly north of due east. The view through 20x80 binoculars was nice, with a good exhaust plume filling the right two thirds of the field of view. The glowing exhaust cone was a bright orange like seen in the onboard video footage. On 1/9/2015 6:29 PM, DAVID DICKINSON via Seesat-l wrote: > CRS5 is set for liftoff from the Cape tomorrow at 4:47 AM EST/9:47 UT... looking like the US NE stands a good chance at seeing Dragon, the Falcon S2 and associated hardware on 1st orbit about 90 minutes after liftoff. Has anyone constructed initial TLEs? > Thanks, Dave Dickinson > Blog: www.astroguyz.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astroguyz > Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/astroguyz > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Jan 10 2015 - 21:26:54 UTC
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