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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
From the HearSat list, but with considerable photographic interest: Report from Nicolas in France: "Today, at 16:12 UTC, an Atlas 5 rocket sent the satellite DMSP F18 from Vandenberg. A last firing after the separation of the satellite took place over Europe, and was followed by the dropping of the residual fuel. I saw (with my eyes!!), since France, this phenomenon" Report from Nils in Germany: "I´ve watched this event yesterday evening from Germany too. It was really amazing, I´ve never seen this before; two clouds (easily detectable by the naked eye), the first flying ca. 1:30 Min before the other one, which is a little bigger in diameter. Around the whole was a big circle, which must have come from either the separation or the firing. I assume the separation. Was an great event. Some pictures here;" http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/...mitObjekt.html Yes, it's well worth looking at the pictures and the resulting animation. Cheers, David |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:45 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote: Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel From the HearSat list, but with considerable photographic interest: Report from Nicolas in France: "Today, at 16:12 UTC, an Atlas 5 rocket sent the satellite DMSP F18 from Vandenberg. A last firing after the separation of the satellite took place over Europe, and was followed by the dropping of the residual fuel. I saw (with my eyes!!), since France, this phenomenon" Report from Nils in Germany: "I´ve watched this event yesterday evening from Germany too. It was really amazing, I´ve never seen this before; two clouds (easily detectable by the naked eye), the first flying ca. 1:30 Min before the other one, which is a little bigger in diameter. Around the whole was a big circle, which must have come from either the separation or the firing. I assume the separation. Was an great event. Some pictures here;" http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/...mitObjekt.html Yes, it's well worth looking at the pictures and the resulting animation. Cheers, David I think the first time I could ever conclusively say that I witnessed a "UFO" was when I saw a small comet-like subject high above the western horizon, well after sunset. I happened to have the smaller of my telescopes out that night and trained it on the core. The reason I thought "UFO"(?) was because it was not behaving as any common comet. The tail was facing toward the now-past sunset, and it was actually slowly moving through the skies, the voluminous tail growing larger and longer as I watched with my naked-eye. Eventually becoming a huge brush in the night-skies. Elapsed time approx. 8-10 minutes. When training my telescope on the "cometary core" it eventually dimmed to a dull-red color and finally faded. Its huge tail taking several more minutes to dissipate. For once in my life; after a life-time of watching night-skies through telescopes, binoculars, and naked eyes (NOT looking for ufo's); I finally thought I saw a genuine UFO. I'm a born but hopeful skeptic. Life is out there, but I sincerely doubt that anything of higher intelligence would ever want to visit, much less stay here. Easily understandable. It's all I can do to keep from running away screaming over the blatant displays of ignorance and stupidity of humanity myself. I pity the more intelligent species that might have to stumble on this mass of ignorance and lack of wisdom. Aside all that.... Logging onto the internet to see if there were any other reports, eventually I found out it was the space-shuttle dumping excess fuel and fluids before landing, a whole half-continent away. Nonetheless, it was an impressive sight that late evening. And only reminded me of something that Bucky Fuller once said, "Sometimes I think we are alone. Sometimes I think we are not. In either case the thought is quite staggering." Has to be one or the other, when you really think about it. The either/or is quite staggering. Take your pick and let your mind and emotions stagger. Though I suspect the "alone" option the more staggering of the two. Then again, the sci-fi movies that show us being consumed or altered irrevocably are also quite staggering. No ... I think alone is more staggering. It means this is it. This is all we'll ever have to work with. The only challenge we'll ever have is ourselves. How pathetically sad that is. It leaves me with zero hope for humanity. Yes, alone in the universe is the most staggering. It means our own close-at-hand demise borne of human ignorance, mass psychosis (religions), and plain ol' stupidity. |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
Ramblin' Man wrote:
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:45 GMT, "David J Taylor" wrote: Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel From the HearSat list, but with considerable photographic interest: Report from Nicolas in France: "Today, at 16:12 UTC, an Atlas 5 rocket sent the satellite DMSP F18 from Vandenberg. A last firing after the separation of the satellite took place over Europe, and was followed by the dropping of the residual fuel. I saw (with my eyes!!), since France, this phenomenon" Report from Nils in Germany: "I´ve watched this event yesterday evening from Germany too. It was really amazing, I´ve never seen this before; two clouds (easily detectable by the naked eye), the first flying ca. 1:30 Min before the other one, which is a little bigger in diameter. Around the whole was a big circle, which must have come from either the separation or the firing. I assume the separation. Was an great event. Some pictures here;" http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/...mitObjekt.html Yes, it's well worth looking at the pictures and the resulting animation. Cheers, David snip Life is out there, but I sincerely doubt that anything of higher intelligence would ever want to visit, much less stay here. Easily understandable. It's all I can do to keep from running away screaming over the blatant displays of ignorance and stupidity of humanity myself. I pity the more intelligent species that might have to stumble on this mass of ignorance and lack of wisdom. Aside all that.... snip Interesting post. However, look at the history of several European countries who, over many centuries, acted contrary to your thoughts and delighted in taking over huge chunks of the worlds, in their minds populated by "inferior races". (This "superior" attitude was shared by many of my ancestors, I'm sorry to say, and is still alive and well in the arguments over immigrants, the negative ones coming mostly from descendants of those who were illegal immigrants themselves.) Again, an interesting post. If your observation occurred in early September of 2009, a friend of mine was on that shuttle. Allen |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:11:16 -0500, Ramblin' Man
wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:45 GMT, "David J Taylor" wrote: Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel From the HearSat list, but with considerable photographic interest: Report from Nicolas in France: "Today, at 16:12 UTC, an Atlas 5 rocket sent the satellite DMSP F18 from Vandenberg. A last firing after the separation of the satellite took place over Europe, and was followed by the dropping of the residual fuel. I saw (with my eyes!!), since France, this phenomenon" Report from Nils in Germany: "I´ve watched this event yesterday evening from Germany too. It was really amazing, I´ve never seen this before; two clouds (easily detectable by the naked eye), the first flying ca. 1:30 Min before the other one, which is a little bigger in diameter. Around the whole was a big circle, which must have come from either the separation or the firing. I assume the separation. Was an great event. Some pictures here;" http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/...mitObjekt.html Yes, it's well worth looking at the pictures and the resulting animation. Cheers, David I think the first time I could ever conclusively say that I witnessed a "UFO" was when I saw a small comet-like subject high above the western horizon, snip That's a great story! When I was about 15 (nearly 40 years ago), I thought I was witnessing a UFO. It was a bright orange pulsating object on the western horizon. My heart was in my throat. I thought, "This is it. They're real." Then the ragged cloud that was obscuring most of a setting full moon cleared off and I got a full view of what it actually was. I felt both a great sense of relief as well as a great sense of disappointment (and stupidity). |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
David J Taylor wrote:
Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel From the HearSat list, but with considerable photographic interest: Report from Nicolas in France: "Today, at 16:12 UTC, an Atlas 5 rocket sent the satellite DMSP F18 from Vandenberg. A last firing after the separation of the satellite took place over Europe, and was followed by the dropping of the residual fuel. I saw (with my eyes!!), since France, this phenomenon" Report from Nils in Germany: "I´ve watched this event yesterday evening from Germany too. It was really amazing, I´ve never seen this before; two clouds (easily detectable by the naked eye), the first flying ca. 1:30 Min before the other one, which is a little bigger in diameter. Around the whole was a big circle, which must have come from either the separation or the firing. I assume the separation. Was an great event. Some pictures here;" http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/...mitObjekt.html Yes, it's well worth looking at the pictures and the resulting animation. Direct link to the animated gif: http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/Bilder/Objekt.gif The large faint halo is surprising. Maybe glow in moist air? That is huge! -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
"Paul Furman" wrote in message
... [] Direct link to the animated gif: http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/Bilder/Objekt.gif The large faint halo is surprising. Maybe glow in moist air? That is huge! -- Paul Furman Good question, Paul. Perhaps you might like to e-mail the photographer and report back? Cheers, David |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
David J Taylor wrote:
Paul Furman wrote . Direct link to the animated gif: http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/Bilder/Objekt.gif The large faint halo is surprising. Maybe glow in moist air? That is huge! Good question, Paul. Perhaps you might like to e-mail the photographer and report back? Ich sprechen *sehr* bischen Deutsch. -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
"Paul Furman" wrote in message
... David J Taylor wrote: Paul Furman wrote . Direct link to the animated gif: http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/Bilder/Objekt.gif The large faint halo is surprising. Maybe glow in moist air? That is huge! Good question, Paul. Perhaps you might like to e-mail the photographer and report back? Ich sprechen *sehr* bischen Deutsch. ... but the person with the technical hobby interest will most likely understand your English! David |
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Photos of a rocket dropping of the residual fuel
Paul Furman wrote:
David J Taylor wrote: Paul Furman wrote . Direct link to the animated gif: http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/400d/Bilder/Objekt.gif The large faint halo is surprising. Maybe glow in moist air? That is huge! Good question, Paul. Perhaps you might like to e-mail the photographer and report back? Ich sprechen *sehr* bischen Deutsch. Eight different words (I assume you know ja und nein)? -- Ray Fischer |
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