Rocket Burn(?) This Evening

[Terry B]

What great photos with the ATCA in the foreground. Well done!

[gary]

Originally Posted by Christoph

Ahhh, that explains it.... Cornelia (my wife) took some pictures outside last night and discovered this strange object, while going through them....
10s shots every 1m15s
Thanks for the clarification....
Cheers,
Christoph

Ho Christoph and Cornelia,

Thanks for the pictures and welcome to IceInSpace.

Greetings to you there out at the Australia Telescope.

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by mozzie

that was somrthing special that night ron...seeing it from apoint and then flaring out we were watching it for ages...iv'e always wanted to see that again and raced out side last night but had missed it bugger.....

Mozzie,when we first spotted it naked eye,it was like globular cluster close to Scorpius which shouldn't have been there,but when I and Kevin put our 16" scopes on it,it was WOW what a sight.
I was going around telling anyone who would listen to put their scopes on it,Peter Robbins put his 30" monster on it and had a line up wanting to watch the action.
The funniest thing was that most of the imagers had packed up and gone too bed, it was mostly just the observing field who got to see this happening.
Groans all round among the imagers the next morning when they heard of the excitement
Watching the drifting apart of the rocket away from the flair was amazing.
Too think we were watching something happening 23000 kilometers away and in real time was a blast something to remember for a long time
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Christoph

Ahhh, that explains it.... Cornelia (my wife) took some pictures outside last night and discovered this strange object, while going through them....
10s shots every 1m15s
Thanks for the clarification....
Cheers,
Christoph

Great pics Christoph, thank Cornelia
Great setting
Cheers

[iceman (Mike)]

Hey Christoph and Cornelia!

Great shots, and was so great meeting you both.

I can't wait to see that in a timelapse

[Christoph (Chris)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Hey Christoph and Cornelia!

Great shots, and was so great meeting you both.

I can't wait to see that in a timelapse

Thank's Mike and everyone for the nice comments!
It was a great meeting you and Andrew too! Glad you got what you came for!
I thought after you encouragement from last weekend I'll be a bit more active rather than my normally just passive presence in this forum...
Connie took pictures all night, so she will make a time-lapse out of it just for the rocket....
It was a little bit too bright due to the moon....
Cheers,
C.

[bkm2304 (Richard Brown)]

Originally Posted by gary

Speedy work capturing the images Richard!

Fantastic stuff.

Thanks for taking the time to post them here.

Thanks, again everyone. Gary, You may notice the first brighter pic has lots of movement artefact as I was frantically trying to catch it before it disappeared. As it was it lingered for 30 odd minutes so I calmed somewhat. My wife, however is still getting over being unceremoniously dragged - yes that's an appropriate term - from her warm shower to view yet another of husband's interesting but rather dull astro phenomena. This time, however even she was impressed by the strange view through the telescope!

Richard

[deanm (Dean)]

Here's an older observation of persistant rocket exhaust plume around the Shuttle after undocking from ISS, seen from Adelaide - this was quite a remarkable sight!

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...998#post745998

Dean

[Draco (Draco)]

Hey Christoph
Is that venus and spica just above the dish? Just trying to get my bearings

Thanks

Originally Posted by Christoph

Ahhh, that explains it.... Cornelia (my wife) took some pictures outside last night and discovered this strange object, while going through them....
10s shots every 1m15s
Thanks for the clarification....
Cheers,
Christoph

[Christoph (Chris)]

I think its Venus and Saturn.... Spica would be a little bit lower (behind the Antenna or maybe even below the horizon...).
Cheers,
C.

[eternityforme (Mark)]

Originally Posted by Christoph

I think its Venus and Saturn.... Spica would be a little bit lower (behind the Antenna or maybe even below the horizon...).
Cheers,
C.

Its Venus and Saturn