Hello all. It's been a very busy 36 hours trying to get data reduced and info to NASA on the video and pictures I took. The two still photos I took from Mt. Hamilton (right next to the 40" dome at Lick Observatory -- coords N37° 20.498' W121° 38.579' Alt 4230feet WGS84 datum) have been scanned (rather poorly by myself, I might add!) and annotated. I've posted them at: http://photos.yahoo.com/rickbaldridge Click on "Astronomy Stuff" album. I won't speculate at this point -- we've had quite enough of that already. Let's just say the photos, videos and eyewitness accounts definitely show that something was amiss while COLUMBIA was over California. With this being my 4th observed reentry, I have a lot of experience looking over photos and videos that I've taken and nothing unusual showed on the previous three. Funny thing was, several of us who saw STS-107 Saturday morning didn't see anything we would call really "unusual" using the naked-eye . The only comments were that the "color" seemed a bit off, perhaps more "orange", but that could be explained by a variety of causes. Only later when we looked at the video and developed the slides did we see something funny was going on. This leads me to believe that the average eye-witness in California may not have seen something going on when in fact it was. Hooray for video cameras. (Just ask Rodney King!) More later. RICK BALDRIDGE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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