Joe Rao wrote: -----Original Message----- >From: Skywayinc@aol.com >Sent: May 20, 2009 10:38 AM >To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org >Subject: Observation of last night's Minotaur-1 rocket > >The E-Mail below is being forwarded from Sky & Telescope columnist, Fred >Schaaf, concerning visibility of last night's Minotaur-1 launch from Wallops >Island, Virginia. It is followed up by a response from me, indicating >that neither myself or John Bortle (an assiduous sky observer) saw any sign of >the launch from where we were located in the Hudson Valley of New York >State. I saw the launch (barely) from my home near the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The trail was very faint, but with my birding scope I could pick out the bright orange "star" as it rose in the southeastern sky. I tried to snap some photos but did not get anything useable. I was hoping that this would be as dramatic as the dawn launch a couple of years ago, but sadly it wasn't. Monroe Harden Havre de Grace, MD, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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