Shuttle STS-117 First orbit siting
Flyguy
Just saw the Shuttle STS-117 go over on it's first full orbit after the
launch this evening. It was moving much faster than usual for a Shuttle
siting. It might have been near perigee in it's currently elliptical and
low orbit, when it passed over my area in the northeast US. That would
explain the higher velocity. There's still time for observers in the
central and western US to see it go over before the orbit becomes higher
and more circular.
Jason H.
Here are some shots from before completion of its first orbit :^) as
seen from my driveway, about 55 miles from the KSC
launchpad, as a windows slideshow/movie (only around 584k in size)
http://setisociety.org/AtlantisLaunch8June07.wmv
If you can't watch windows movies, here is each frame individually
(which you could download and page through as a slide show):
http://setisociety.org/100_5173.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5174.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5175.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5176.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5177.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5178.JPG
http://setisociety.org/100_5179.JPG
in this next to last one you can still see it as a white dot if you
expand it to its full size (just follow the arc of the smoke over near
the trees)
http://setisociety.org/100_5180.JPG
and lastly just the smoke plume
http://setisociety.org/100_5181.JPG
Taken with 5MP Kodak EasyShare camera (with only a 14mm diameter
objective lens), which is the same one I used in my previous image
posts here on Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon.
Regards, Jason H.
Florian
> seen from my driveway, about 55 miles from the KSC
> launchpad, as a windows slideshow/movie (only around 584k in size)
> http://setisociety.org/AtlantisLaunch8June07.wmv
Jason, that's great! Thanks for posting!
.Florian
Harry F. Leopold
(in article <1181357253.7...@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>):
> On Jun 8, 8:56 pm, Flyguy <Fly...@bluesky.net> wrote:
>> Friday June-8 9:30 PM-EDT.
>>
>> Just saw the Shuttle STS-117 go over on it's first full orbit after the
>> launch this evening. It was moving much faster than usual for a Shuttle
>> siting. It might have been near perigee in it's currently elliptical and
>> low orbit, when it passed over my area in the northeast US. That would
>> explain the higher velocity. There's still time for observers in the
>> central and western US to see it go over before the orbit becomes higher
>> and more circular.
>
> Here are some shots from before completion of its first orbit :^) as
> seen from my driveway, about 55 miles from the KSC
> launchpad, as a windows slideshow/movie (only around 584k in size)
>
> http://setisociety.org/AtlantisLaunch8June07.wmv
Nice, thanks for posting this.
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Johnny Borborigmi
Nice! Thanks for that!
Eric
Well, if I'm going to see it here in the "Great NorthWet" its going to have
to be below 1000 feet :-)
Thanks Anyway,
Eric
Florian
.Florian
Jason H.
> Jason, i'm wondering... could you hear it as well?
>
> .Florian
No, not this time. A news crew that was out there at the time also
said that it wasn't as loud as other times and speculated that maybe
the wind was blowing the other way, but I think some other people
outside of Merritt Island heard it pretty loudly. A few years ago we
thought we heard it as a couple of deep muffled thumps. The thing
that we usally hear and can be certain of are the sonic booms when it
returns. If one forgets or isn't aware of it, all kinds of sources
for the explosions can be imagined, and your whole house shakes. It's
great!