Re: STS-77 Reentry Observed (!)

Philip Chien (kc4yer@amsat.org)
Thu, 30 May 1996 10:49:36 -0400

>On Wed, 29 May 1996, Jim Varney wrote:
>
>> I shot some 8mm video.  The orange-red color registered on the tape; ion
>> trial is visible on playback as well.  The shuttle was so bright that it
>> overloaded the CCD in my camera...!

and Floyd Weaver replied:

>   Is there any way to get this into a video file format that I could
>download and view on a computer? I am one of these folks that live in the
>wrong place to see reentries.

Yeah, those of us in Florida don't get to see much of reentries either!

Well, I suppose spotting the shuttle 5 minutes before landing and watching
it land make up for that somewhat ...



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