Orion (& Comet Atlas) over Kennedy Space Center
Taken by Mark Marquette on November 12, 2020 @
Titusville, Florida
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7000
Exposure Time: 300/10
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 2000
Date Taken: 2020:11:13 00:06:42
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ORION RISES OVER KSC AND TWO ROCKETS--Orion's belt of three stars point down to the historic NASA Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), as clouds drift over Kennedy Space Center Thursday night where two rockets stand ready to blast off into space.
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Three tiny lights on the left are on KSC Launch Complex 39A where a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Saturday evening at 7:49 pm with four astronauts bound for the International Space Station.
Some three miles to the right with the bright blueish light
radiating upward is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 where an Atlas 5 is perched ready for a 5:13 pm EST.
And amateur astronomers are following, and you will be keen to see Comet Atlas, a faint smudge above the top belt star of Orion (at 2 o'clock). Orion's shoulders are two bright stars on the left, and his knees are two stars to the right. The mythological hunter's sword dangles down from the belt of three stars.
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