Rocket Launch
Taken by Stephen Kelly Sullivan on July 2, 2014 @ Malibu, California, USA
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  Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure Time: 799/1
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 640
Date Taken: 2014-07-02T11:23:07-07:00
  
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Delta II Rocket Launch from Vandenberg AFB. Canon EOS 5D w/ EF 17-40mm and a B+W GRD-ND Filter. EI 640 - F/8 @ 800sec
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http://StephenKellySullivan.com/
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Beautiful !
;-)
Posted by Sylvain 2014-07-02 07:00:59
Superb! Bet it was hard to make that trip again but it was really worth it.
Posted by Javamybird 2014-07-02 09:24:58
Incredible! And what a difference a little perspective makes. We were on top of the crestline of the Santa Monica Mountains, but at the far SE end - maybe 10 miles from your position - near the old Nike Missile base above Encino, and from there the mountains north of the SF Valley completely cutoff the launch phase. Yet the rocket easily zipped over 45 degrees of our horizontal arc view, as it rose from roughly 20 to 60 degrees above the horizon, when it disappeared as NASA TV called it around 270 miles downrange. Leaving us with one long streak of orange light across more than a quarter of the sky, in the span of maybe 10 seconds with another 10 seconds of visibility as it went from altitude so far away that it appeared almost stationary: and by then it was so faint that a shot would have required a long exposure that might have come out as a nice little arc, had we been adequately prepared. (But for someone set up as though going for an ISS close-up, there would have been a great chance of capturing clear high-speed close-ups of perhaps each of the individual flames in the moment, in all its no-doubt interesting detail.) But again, a VERY nice call on your choice of location - a spectacularly gorgeous shot!
Posted by fmichael 2014-07-02 18:14:44
 
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