STS-132 Atlantis: Viewing (Going to launch, events, landing, etc.)

• #760 by Col on 31 May, 2010 02:41
• Hi everyone,
   Travelled from Australia to watch sts132 Atlantis launch was a great experience viewed from the NASA Causeway,this was my second launch last one was sts91(from hall of fame) back in 1998,the view i had this time was better and a better camera helped this time,Money well spent for this trip.

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• #761 by K466 on 31 May, 2010 17:48
• Quote from: Col on 31 May, 2010 02:41

  Hi everyone,
   Travelled from Australia to watch sts132 Atlantis launch was a great experience viewed from the NASA Causeway,this was my second launch last one was sts91(from hall of fame) back in 1998,the view i had this time was better and a better camera helped this time,Money well spent for this trip.
  

  
  Wow the last launch I was at was STS-91 too. But I live in Florida, I will always be asking myself why I did not go over there more often.
• #762 by Naito on 09 Jun, 2010 04:37
• This pic is a little late to the party, but it took a while for me to clean it up.  Still working on a higher res version to posterize for my office, hope you guys like! =)

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• #763 by Col on 10 Jun, 2010 10:36
• Cool Picture Naito.
• #764 by K466 on 11 Jun, 2010 19:36
• Quote from: Naito on 09 Jun, 2010 04:37

  This pic is a little late to the party, but it took a while for me to clean it up.  Still working on a higher res version to posterize for my office, hope you guys like! =)
  

  
  How did you do that? I was there at 5 am and tried to get a shot like that but the lights did not show up on my pictures.
• #765 by Naito on 11 Jun, 2010 21:39
• Quote from: K466 on 11 Jun, 2010 19:36

  How did you do that? I was there at 5 am and tried to get a shot like that but the lights did not show up on my pictures.
  

  
  Pic was taken from roughly here
  http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.418315,-80.62466&spn=0.006369,0.010847&z=17
  around midnight the night before launch.  It's a composite of about 30 different exposures.  The longer exposures brought out the light beams, and the short ones got the details of the stack.  Used some astro-photography software to stack the images to get rid of the air and humidity effects from shooting across 12 miles of Florida air, then fused the different exposures together.
  
  In interests of full-disclosure, I added the extended water reflection on the bottom since it got cut off by the road and shoreline in the original one.  Hope it's not too much =p
  
  Took less time than I thought to do the finished version =)  Hope you all like!

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• #766 by K466 on 12 Jun, 2010 03:27
• Fantastic Naito, thanks for the explanation It's one of the best photos like that I've seen.
• #767 by cian on 12 Jun, 2010 10:03
• Here's my effort at one of those shots.  30 sec exposure from Titusville
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/complexvisuals/4604984409/in/set-72157623932154253/
• #768 by KEdward5 on 12 Jun, 2010 15:52
• Can't access, please ATTACH the photo to the post.
• #769 by Naito on 12 Jun, 2010 15:54
• Quote from: cian on 12 Jun, 2010 10:03

  Here's my effort at one of those shots.  30 sec exposure from Titusville
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/complexvisuals/4604984409/in/set-72157623932154253/
  

  
  I saw those while browsing on flickr before, they were great! Where in Titusville were you?
• #770 by cian on 12 Jun, 2010 16:43
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  I saw those while browsing on flickr before, they were great! Where in Titusville were you?
  

  
  Thanks alot. In Titusville, near directly across from El Leoncito Mexican restaurant.  We walked across the road and out onto a wooden dock/pier.
  
  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=28.56597,-80.796204&sll=53.318442,-6.251353&sspn=0.033071,0.089092&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=15
• #771 by K466 on 14 Jun, 2010 17:40
• Darn I think my problem was the exposure was set too short. Not sure I will have another chance to get a early morning shot like that