> Yes, it was a good view from Tustin Orange County CA. Terrific from Newport Beach as well. Fortunately I had turned on CNN around 7pm and they said the launch was delayed and rescheduled for 9:17pm PDT. I was very impressed with how bright (and white!) the exhaust plume was. > ... The cloud faded out leaving a roughly cylindrical shape of a lovely blue > along the axis. Blue color slowly deepened & faded. Looked blue-green to everyone in my group -- a beautiful, eerie teal color. I wonder how many UFO reports were phoned in. > Thanks to Rob for prompting me to look at Orion 3! Short flashes to > negative magnitude! Interval between 2 flashes was 22.0 s We took a break from dinner at the Cheesecake Factory to watch this. It wasn't as impressive as Thursday night, but still saw three flashes of negative magnitude -- brightest about -4 or -5. (Very difficult to judge these things of course). --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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