I have put online a couple of Rick Baldridge's photos of the "comet" produced by the venting of the Milstar 5 Centaur's excess propellant after spacecraft separation. Thanks Rick! Now quoting Rick: > These were made by stacking 6 frame-grabbed images from a > Hi-8 video taken with a homemade set-up and a 2nd-Generation > image intensifier tube. Unfortunately, the image tube is a > "second" and has some burn-spots (but it was alot cheaper at > $300!) > > In both images, Zenith is approximately UP. > Taken from N37.262 W121.977. The picture at http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/M5fueldump1.jpg (about 160K) was > taken with a 400mm lens with the field cropped to about 2 > degrees wide. I believe the time was about 7:43 U.T.... That one gives a pretty good sense of the shape and orientation of the plume at that time. The picture at http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/M5fueldump2.jpg (about 176K) was >taken with a 50mm lens and is annotated. Please forgive >the corner of my roof in the lower left of the image! That one gives a sense of where in the sky the plume was at about 7:31 Jan 16 UTC. With my 10x50 binoculars I was able to watch it as Alphard (alphy HYA) passes to the south of it, although by then it wasn't very bright. Rick also made a brief high-resolution MPEG file that I plan to put online later today. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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