APOD: A Falcon 9 Nebula (2021 Sep 04)

Comments and questions about the APOD on the main view screen.
Post Reply
User avatar
APOD Robot
Otto Posterman
Posts: 5344
Joined: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:27 am
Contact:

APOD: A Falcon 9 Nebula (2021 Sep 04)

Post by APOD Robot » Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:07 am

Image A Falcon 9 Nebula

Explanation: Not the Hubble Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 29. The snapshot was taken at 3:17am from Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. That's about 3 minutes after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-23 mission to resupply the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage of the rocket rising through still dark skies. The lower bright dot is the second stage continuing on to low Earth orbit. The upper one is the rocket's first stage performing a boostback burn. Of course the first stage booster returned to make the first landing on the latest autonomous drone ship to arrive in the Atlantic, A Short Fall of Gravitas.

<< Previous APOD This Day in APOD Next APOD >>

User avatar
orin stepanek
Plutopian
Posts: 8200
Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:41 pm
Location: Nebraska

Re: APOD: A Falcon 9 Nebula (2021 Sep 04)

Post by orin stepanek » Sat Sep 04, 2021 1:39 pm

iss_08-29-21-1024x576.jpg
DSC08399-LrOut-Haidet1024.jpg
DSC06988copy2.jpg
Awesome views of SpaceX9's Nebula; :and docking with the ISS!
Maybe not a space nebula; but sure 'nuff looks like the real thing :mrgreen:
Orin

Smile today; tomorrow's another day!

User avatar
Fred the Cat
Theoretic Apothekitty
Posts: 958
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:09 pm
AKA: Ron
Location: Eagle, Idaho

Re: APOD: A Falcon 9 Nebula (2021 Sep 04)

Post by Fred the Cat » Sat Sep 04, 2021 2:25 pm

IMG_3250.JPG
And this isn't a spectacularly lit up palm tree. I'm not sure I get the point of a nebulous image that could be about anything. :? (No disrespect to Dennis)
Freddy's Felicity "Only ascertain as a cat box survivor"

User avatar
neufer
Vacationer at Tralfamadore
Posts: 18805
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:57 pm
Location: Alexandria, Virginia

Re: APOD: A Falcon 9 Nebula (2021 Sep 04)

Post by neufer » Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:48 pm

  • The Second Coming
    By William Butler Yeats

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
Art Neuendorffer

Post Reply