I passed along the information on the launch to my friend, Mike Bihuniak, who lives with his wife, Lin, in Kingman, Arizona. Below is a report on what they saw. -- joe rao Hey Joe, Thanks again for the heads up on the launch. This one was more spectacular than the last one. We observed the contrail rising above the western horizon shortly after launch. The skies were Arizona clear and the contrail was brilliant. The contrail started out as a very orange reflection of the setting sun. Sunset here is around 6:35 MST and the skies were dark to the east but still a lot of light in the west. As the rocket rose, the contrail turned to white and briefly disappeared when one of the stages separated. The rocket and it's contrail continued towards the S/E and passed directly under a very bright Venus. The contrail was still visible when I came in to send this to you, approx. 10 minutes after liftoff. Quite a show! Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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