Posted on 10/24/2008 6:00:16 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d336/status.html
I alerted my son about this. He and my daughter in law were attending a friend’s birthday party on the 25th floor of the Icon building in downtown San Diego.
They and many of the guests got to see and enjoy this rare sight, as a result.
He told me that at first it looked like three distant jets in very tight formation, then the jets went out, and were quickly replaced by a single long flame.
Then it got fast. ;-)
Thanks, Ash, for alerting us to this particular “Boom Stick”!
It was a real dud here from the central San Joaquin Valley. There was no contrail whatsoever, just the light of the flame, which appeared as an airplane might. We’re already north of the launch, and the launch was basically due south, so people in LA or San Diego would have had a much better view.
Did anyone observe noctilucent clouds from it? I saw nothing.
No clouds or anything, just a little light show at staging.
Just too late into the evening for this one to have any sunlight at that altitude.
>>No clouds or anything, just a little light show at staging.
Same here, though the “light show” at staging consisted of about a 3rd magnitude star briefly becoming a 2nd magnitude star. :) I’m about 100 miles north of Vandenberg and 80 miles east. I was basically looking up the exhaust from 200 miles away when it staged.
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