Cygnus Launch

[mellow]

I was too busy watching it with my son to take a picture, we could only see the bright orange exhaust and smoke plume, that was the second one I got to watch, this one you could see go the whole way up, pretty cool.

Anyone else catch it?


Picture from twitter:

 

[UncleJoe]

I didn't see the latest one but I did catch the first one from Virginia last year. Launch was at 12:30am. There is a 1000' mountain behind us so I drove up there to a lookout area. There were 20-25 other people there. One had the launch streaming on his tablet and everyone was gathered around. We watched the launch on the tablet and within a few seconds it appeared over the horizon. It was awesome! We could see the first stage burning out when suddenly the second stage kicked in. As it was disappearing into the dark night we saw a quick flare-up as the third stage kicked in. I don't know how visible it would be up here for a daylight launch.

 

[jatoxico]

Saw one out of Virginia last year too. Wife had the launch on laptop. Waited a few minutes then caught sight of it as it came up through the tree line and off she went. Pretty cool.