Posted: 4/1/2010 12:50:59 PM EDT
| Any local suggestions for a good spot to watch the shuttle launch this comming week? |
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When's the launch? 6:21am monday morning http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/ |
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How well can you see it from St Aug Beach? Is it worth fighting the crowd to go further south? unless you get a spot real close to the base, it's probably not worth the drive.... This launch should be easily visable to many people. Take off in the dark and shortly after take off it will be in the sun light and be easy to see! ....leaving now, I'll post an update here (hopefully!) when I get setup at the press site. |
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How well can you see it from St Aug Beach? Is it worth fighting the crowd to go further south? unless you get a spot real close to the base, it's probably not worth the drive.... This launch should be easily visable to many people. Take off in the dark and shortly after take off it will be in the sun light and be easy to see! ....leaving now, I'll post an update here (hopefully!) when I get setup at the press site. Thanks, hate crowds but love fireworks. Hope they light it. |
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Here is the trail. I dont think thats the tail they're talking about.... it was more like a contrail later in the flight I wasnt able to take any pics, but I set an old video camera up. I'm packing up and heading off base now will check for pics/vids when i get home. |
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Here is the trail. I dont think thats the tail they're talking about.... it was more like a contrail later in the flight I wasnt able to take any pics, but I set an old video camera up. I'm packing up and heading off base now will check for pics/vids when i get home. The pics do not do it justice. Here is another of the "blue haze" I tried to get video and wife tried to get still shots but they just don't look like the launch. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: stangboy555, that is exactly what we saw but much better pics, thanks. Right Click, Save  Let me know if you want the HI-RES. Nice pics... what camera/glass? The exif data was blank... Pretty sure its a Nikon D90 Here's the High-Res. http://www.sanixay.com/shuttle/ ETA, Nikon 24-70 f2.8 |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: stangboy555, that is exactly what we saw but much better pics, thanks. Right Click, Save Let me know if you want the HI-RES. Could I get the hi-res versions of the first two you posted? Those are amazing.  The link is 2 posts up. Grab it while you can, I'm taking it down tomorrow to save bandwidth. |
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stangboy555, that is exactly what we saw but much better pics, thanks. Right Click, Save
Let me know if you want the HI-RES. Could I get the hi-res versions of the first two you posted? Those are amazing. The link is 2 posts up. Grab it while you can, I'm taking it down tomorrow to save bandwidth. let me know if you want them hosted... space nor bandwidth is an issue for me. |
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The low cloud cover @ Jupiter Inlet prevented the usual spectacular launch view.
The shuttle had already left the pad and was well over the Atlantic when I was packing up my gear for the trip home. A older fellow came up next to me with his little camera and asked "how much longer?" I told him, She's already gone. He just said "shit" and walked back to his car. There was another bunch of folksflock of snowbirds sitting in their beach chairs chit chatting when I passed them, I overheard one old bird say, I wonder when it's going to launch. I didn't have the heart to tell her they were about 10 minutes too late. |