Starship Asterisk*

[quote="APOD Robot"] its fiery trail becomes an eerie, [url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/index.html]noctilucent[/url] exhaust plume glinting in sunlight. [/quote]

This plume created quite a stir among early risers on the west side of the peninsula.

[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="Tszabeau"]Now THAT's photography. Beautifully done. So... is the "rainbow" a reflection of the arcing rocket trail, in the camera lens or an atmospheric effect?[/quote]
Most likely lens flare. An internal reflection of the launch, moving along its own path, the color determined by the nature of the good- but not perfect- anti-reflection coating used.[/quote]
Agreed, note how if you flip the rainbow feature vertically, then horizontally, it appears like it would line up perfectly with the rocket trajectory.

Was that a staging incident near the peak of the arc? It looks like the first stage continued to follow a perfect ballistic parabola as it headed back to Earth. That appears quite a course correction as the second stage burns. ...Beautiful...C_S

[quote="ta152h0"]

do they still do rocket cams, or has that become ho-hum ?[/quote]
They are probably mandatory.

do they still do rocket cams, or has that become ho-hum ?

[quote="Tszabeau"]Now THAT's photography. Beautifully done. So... is the "rainbow" a reflection of the arcing rocket trail, in the camera lens or an atmospheric effect?[/quote]
Most likely lens flare. An internal reflection of the launch, moving along its own path, the color determined by the nature of the good- but not perfect- anti-reflection coating used.

Now THAT's photography. Beautifully done. So... is the "rainbow" a reflection of the arcing rocket trail, in the camera lens or an atmospheric effect?

Gee....if I were up that high, would I be Noctilucent?

Awesome Launch...
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[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150905.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_150905.jpg[/img] [size=150]Atlas V Rising[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Early morning risers along Florida's Space Coast, planet Earth, were treated to a launch spectacle [url=http://www.universetoday.com/122124/atlas-v-launch-of-navys-revolutionary-muos-4-tactical-comsat-produces-exotic-skyshow/]on September 2nd[/url]. Before dawn an Atlas V rocket rose into still dark skies carrying a US Navy communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station into Earth orbit. [url=http://www.mikedeep.com/Aerospace/Rockets]This minutes long exposure[/url] follows the rocket's arc [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140130.html]climbing eastward[/url] over the Atlantic. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m10fuzd_tTM]As the rocket rises[/url] above Earth's shadow, its fiery trail becomes an eerie, [url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/index.html]noctilucent[/url] exhaust plume glinting in sunlight. Of course, the short, bright startrail just above the cloud bank is Venus rising, now appearing in planet Earth's skies as the brilliant morning star.

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