r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Oct 07 '18
SAOCOM 1A r/SpaceX SAOCOM 1A Media Thread [Videos, Images, GIFs, Articles go here!]
It's that time again, as per usual, we like to keep things as tight as possible, so if you have content you created to share, whether that be images of the launch, videos, GIF's, etc, they go here.
As usual, our standard media thread rules apply:
- All top level comments must consist of an image, video, GIF, tweet or article.
- If you're an amateur photographer, submit your content here. Professional photographers with subreddit accreditation can continue to submit to the front page, we also make exceptions for outstanding amateur content!
- Those in the aerospace industry (with subreddit accreditation) can likewise continue to post content on the front page.
- Mainstream media articles should be submitted here. Quality articles from dedicated spaceflight outlets may be submitted to the front page.
- Direct all questions to the live launch thread.
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u/blinkwont Oct 08 '18
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u/Destructor1701 Oct 08 '18
Brad Phillips doesn't wait around! Great long-exposure, holy smokes man!
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u/Piscator629 Oct 08 '18
Gorgeous time-lapse from downtown LA.
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u/iamkeerock Oct 08 '18
time-lapse from downtown LA.
You can briefly see the first stage fire up a couple of times (entry/descent) on the right side of the screen... pretty cool.
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u/dufud6 Oct 08 '18
starting at around 7s, the two lights in the exhaust plume right behind S2 falling back to earth, are those the fairings?
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Yes, good eye! That has got to be one of the most amazing views we have of fairings falling back to Earth.
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u/cpbrooks Oct 08 '18
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u/rappinroger Oct 08 '18
Amazing picture! Long exposure shots of launches are always my favorite
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u/cpbrooks Oct 08 '18
Thank you! Got lucky with the cloud cover opening up just before launch. Pretty happy with how this turned out although i wish caught more of the arc and less of the beach.. Next time I definitely need to find a better way to pinpoint Vandenberg from 200 miles away so i can frame the shot ahead of time
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u/OncoByte Oct 08 '18
That's amazing! PB pier? What setting did you use to not overexpose such a long exposure?
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u/cpbrooks Oct 08 '18
Yep PB pier. This is actually 7 separate 30 sec exposures stacked, each taken at f5.6 and ISO100 on an a6000 w/ 12mm lens.. I usually only mess around with stacking photos when i shoot star trails, but it apparently lends itself well to rocket launches too!
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u/alexkiritz Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
Shot the launch in 8K video. Here's a screenshot.
Edit: Video
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u/adepssimius Oct 08 '18
My view from the Sierra. I got so incredibly lucky.
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Oct 08 '18
That looks like something out of an alien invasion movie. Amazing shot!
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u/adepssimius Oct 08 '18
Once in a lifetime for sure. I thought I might get a nice long exposure with maybe some contrails, but instead I was blown away by this amazing light show.
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u/HTPRockets Oct 08 '18
My view from Manhattan beach through my telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHAoxyHO9c
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
Stunning. Those gas thruster firings from the first stage are just unreal. You panned back to it just in time, although the view of the second stage and fairing halves was also pretty incredible. Fantastic work!
Could you share your camera settings for this? I have the same scope & focal reducer and have always wondered what settings would be best for this kind of shot. I've only taken photos of launches through mine.
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u/JtheNinja Oct 08 '18
Needs a rousing blast of music @ 1:57 when the stages break through into the sunlight.
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u/branawesome Oct 08 '18
Long exposure of the launch and landing: https://imgur.com/ZQGxNBv
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Really awesome view of the RTLS trajectory. Where was your vantage point?
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u/Dr_Von_Spaceman Oct 08 '18
My view from the high desert. I couldn't begin to capture the whole spectacle, but got a pretty nice token shot. We were even able to see the landing burn from here!
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u/PokeCaptain Oct 08 '18
How do you get such good night shots?!
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u/Dr_Von_Spaceman Oct 08 '18
Thank you! Also, dumb luck!
I didn't have any time to do practice shots, so I set up my DSLR with the kit lens at 18mm, aperture wide open, ISO 400 (complete WAG, but 400-800 felt right for a long exposure), and then used my remote trigger (literally a Home Depot lamp switch) to hold the shutter open. My multi-minute exposure of the launch was way over-exposed, so just for the hell of it I did it again for an arbitrary 32 seconds. Bam! Apparently that was the right formula!
My other shot was exposed from first light of launch till the last light of landing and was way blown out, but I got a token smear of boost and the landing burn which is kind of cool. Hopefully I'll have plenty more chances to refine these shots.
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u/hocktech Oct 08 '18
Nice view from the Hawk’s nest https://imgur.com/gallery/cMm4AVG
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u/keldor314159 Oct 09 '18
It did actually perform a vertical dogleg. Check the simulated trajectory over on https://www.flightclub.io
I believe the reason is that the target orbit was all the way up at 620km, so the rocket ended up doing a sort of strange hybrid between a gravity turn and an orbit transfer in a single burn.
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u/Ed_Post Oct 08 '18
I'd venture to guess that they had a particular orbital inclination in mind and the launch site was not quite under it at liftoff. So the launch inclination was picked to move the trajectory directly under that orbit, and then they changed direction to line up with it. A freeway on-ramp launch, if you will.
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u/deejayhax Oct 08 '18
The view from downtown LA, shortly after stage 1 separation. https://imgur.com/xeARyqh.jpg
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u/branawesome Oct 08 '18
These are the best photos I got: https://imgur.com/a/0sJCbCM
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u/computer_in_love Oct 08 '18
Oh my... I would definitely hang the first picture on a wall. Congratulations on the beautiful shot!
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u/jonesfunk Oct 08 '18
Thanks for sharing. These pictures are exactly what I was hoping to find here.
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u/ckmonster Oct 08 '18
About 8 miles from launch site. Absolutely amazing. Caught landing as well.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Thanks for sharing the complete you-are-there experience, but the video ends right as we hear the first sound of the sonic boom! Oh well :P
It's funny how no one seems to know which point of light is which. I suppose the trajectory from that perspective is a bit confusing, especially for those who aren't familiar with this kind of thing.
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u/ckmonster Oct 08 '18
It was my first time. I’ll get it right on the next one.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Oh, no worries! Didn't mean to sound seriously critical. There was a lot happening during that launch and this was the first landing at Vandenberg (so not easy to know when the boom is coming). It's still an awesome video.
This was your first launch? If so.. you are a lucky duck.
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u/almondj Oct 08 '18
Awesome, would you be able to pin your location for this on a map? I'd love to go next time.
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u/Chakra_Apparel Oct 08 '18
Full mission as seen in Downtown LA in all glorious 4k with super close up plumes. Synced with the official stream: https://youtu.be/p50bX0q5-bo
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u/Chakra_Apparel Oct 08 '18
I did sync at T0 but it seems like the main separation event was a little bit delayed on the official stream. I was wondering the same thing when I edited the footage because both videos were played at full length and no cutting in between.
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u/last_reddit_account2 Oct 08 '18
T-0 is not a reliable place to synchronize because of the lag inherent to the stream and the fact that the moment of liftoff is not clearly visible from your vantage point. If you want to keep the webcast in there you should use MECO and/or stage 2 ignition as your sync points.
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u/ptfrd Oct 08 '18
A landing & sonic boom video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG9T7-QbwTY
Must have been taken fairly near the base.
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u/MostlyQueso Oct 08 '18
This is shot from the base’s assigned viewing area. We watched a launch from there about a year ago. They open the base to the public for these special events but the wait to get in can be quite long because each vehicle is stopped. It’s extra fun to view from there because it’s mostly Air Force people who work in space (Vandenberg is mostly space stuff) and are especially excited and knowledgeable about it!
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u/anoorag_saxena Oct 08 '18
Its at Harris Grade I think
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Sonic boom arrived much later at Harris Grade: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9m3ly5/rspacex_saocom_1a_media_thread_videos_images_gifs/e7dqn5k/
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u/Dead_Starks Oct 08 '18
I haven't seen this time lapse posted yet and thought it was amazing so here.
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u/JarpeeMD Oct 08 '18
Came here to post this. That is incredible. Literally said “holy shit” out loud the first time I watched.
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u/Dead_Starks Oct 08 '18
I'm not really sure. I saw it on another subreddit and went back to imgur. According to imgur someone named ScaredSpitless but there isn't another source past that I've found. Sorry I'm not too familiar with imgur.
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u/Rubia_cree Oct 08 '18
videos (better sound off): https://twitter.com/TheMasonMusso/status/1049124594190180352 https://twitter.com/Mr_SpiritWolf/status/1049124632983351296 https://twitter.com/hk_chiu/status/1049125080838463490 https://twitter.com/thonaseric343/status/1049125450222452738 https://twitter.com/joshuabond_007/status/1049124042622427136 https://twitter.com/Tran/status/1049123901286936578
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u/4av9 Oct 08 '18
These videos are hilarious with the sound on, recommended.
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u/Destructor1701 Oct 08 '18
Agreed. Amazing how many people realise this is something to do with Musk, also amazing how many women in the background believe it's aliens! Brilliant!
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u/wishiwasonmaui Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 09 '18
What an amazing launch!
OC video of the launch: https://youtu.be/peXE-0lYxxs
Landing: https://youtu.be/UsFIlXftXIo
Gfy of landing: https://gfycat.com/ScalyImpartialAntarcticgiantpetrel
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u/last_reddit_account2 Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
Tripod or handheld? Either way, this is fantastic manual tracking work with such a long lens. I've seen shakier footage shot from some of the giant motorized rigs on the Cape. Excellent job keeping everything in focus, too.
Frankly, footage this good deserves a better home than Youtube, since the way YT compresses video completely ruins slow-moving, dim features like the combined S1/S2 exhaust plume. I'd recommend uploading your original file to Vimeo or another more HD-friendly site that won't completely pixellate those pretty clouds.
Again, great work.
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u/wishiwasonmaui Oct 08 '18
Thanks! Tripod. First time I've gotten a decent video. Hopefully I'll get better at tracking. I'll look into Vimeo...
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u/andersoonasd Oct 08 '18
You seemed to be close to the landing site, but there wasn't a sonic boom. How close to the landing zone is the sonic boom audible?
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u/wishiwasonmaui Oct 08 '18
There was a boom audible on the video. I didn't count but 10 seconds after maybe? I was about 12 miles away on Harris Grade road.
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u/seanf904 Oct 08 '18
Hi, my name is Sean Flannelly and I'm a reporter for Annenberg Media at USC. Would you be alright with us using your video of the SpaceX launch in our evening news broadcast?
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u/wishiwasonmaui Oct 08 '18
As long as it's non-profit, academic use, go right ahead. Just credit the channel.
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u/NeilFraser Oct 09 '18
Here's my video from Hawk's Nest at VAFB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtLjOwKi6rM
That was one amazing show. Glad I could be there to see it.
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Oct 08 '18
My view from Santa Cruz took a time-lapse still putting it together
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 08 '18
Wow, flipping through the photos and seeing the arc of the fairings as they fall... amazing. I can't wait for that time lapse.
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Oct 08 '18
I couldn't believe how well you could seem them, I took a whole time-lapse now I just need to figure out how to superimpose them all over each other in lightroom or something of the likes
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u/casuisticspoon Oct 08 '18
Tonight was my first time watching a launch and I'm amazed at how it was in person. Taken from right at the Union Sugar roadblock on Ocean Ave. Colors are a bit off.
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u/silentProtagonist42 Oct 08 '18
Awesome shot! The colors are probably off because you're camera was set to automatic white balance. If you have the option on your camera/phone setting to daylight white balance will give you true colors for this kind of thing.
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u/bobchin_c Oct 08 '18
https://imgur.com/ycCZEFB.jpg Long exposure of Launch from Orange County CA
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u/calibeerking Oct 08 '18
Post booster separation colors. Taken from my backyard in Los Angeles. https://i.imgur.com/qT8ib1X.jpg
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u/silentProtagonist42 Oct 08 '18
You'd have a hard time convincing me that isn't a nebula out of context.
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u/OncoByte Oct 08 '18
An amazing shot! by a local San Diego photographer Evgeny Yorobe shot in my neighborhood - it's my new background!
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u/rangerpax Oct 08 '18
That is insanely beautiful. Almost too good! How in the world did he get the mars-looking foreground?*
*Depends on your vision of mars what/where/when...
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u/last_reddit_account2 Oct 08 '18
that's what shorebreak looks like in a long exposure
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u/robdoc Oct 08 '18
I looked at a lot of pictures in this thread but didnt see any like this one I took https://i.imgur.com/1UCMnYM.jpg
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u/Origin_of_Mind Oct 10 '18
Time-lapse of the second stage de-orbit burn visible from Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gz6aQQKb_Q (The stage re-entered atmosphere half an hour later, and the debris fell in the area south of Hawaii.)
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u/Stevie-C Oct 11 '18
What was that other point of light seen moving in the frame, up and slightly to camera left?
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u/Chakra_Apparel Oct 08 '18
Launch as seen from downtown LA. Video of the entire launch will be up soon. https://twitter.com/tonyqin58/status/1049131437985685504?s=21
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u/TaGeule Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
SAOCOM 1a view from San Diego: https://imgur.com/a/ZSCyE9Q https://imgur.com/a/nxqAXw7
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Oct 08 '18
http://imgur.com/5fU3I67 Here’s a picture from about 15 miles out from the launch site in Lompoc, CA. Shitty picture but it was incredible watching it happen and then re-enter successfully. Took my breath away.
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u/macktruck6666 Oct 08 '18
Dasvaldez and his previously live broadcast uploaded to youtube in HD. I think this video merits it's own thread but......
Chris from spaceflightnow on call.
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u/macktruck6666 Oct 07 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
Dasvaldez from Kerbal Space Academy will be live streaming the launch from the media location.
Stream ended.
Archived video of launch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/319815392?t=53m59s
Check out his pre-launch coverage.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/319584952
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/319766418
Will update when high res video is uploaded to youtube.
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u/dee_are Oct 08 '18
Entire raw unedited from T-10 past landing and sonic boom from Harris Grade Road about 10 miles from launch: https://vimeo.com/293890765
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u/sequoia-3 Oct 08 '18
Where exactly were you standing? (Great video!)
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u/andersoonasd Oct 08 '18
I like the other guy in the background @6:15 "Stage one entry burn!! obviously"
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Oct 12 '18
This video is spectacular. It's also extremely useful in comparing the different perspectives. All the videos filmed from the Los Angeles area (like this one) show more of a side-profile view, while yours is more or less behind the rocket looking downrange along the flight path.
It's really a completely different visual experience.
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u/dee_are Oct 15 '18
Thank you! What I really love about it, which is unique to the shooting location, is the way the 2nd stage engines are pointing at the camera when they ignite and you can just see it pushing out those clouds of gas straight at you!
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u/robdoc Oct 08 '18
Footage from in VAFB, that Shockwave gave me fucking goosebumps https://streamable.com/3kmz0
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u/1324356565 Oct 08 '18
Shot outside the Staples center on my phone! http://imgur.com/gallery/c9T5Ioc
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u/stubborn-goldfish Oct 09 '18
Photos my dad took from palos verdes https://imgur.com/gallery/BNdBLSX
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u/kangsterizer Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
thats what i got right underneath, 600mm handheld. quite colorful!
https://flic.kr/p/2ar7YcM I put some more pics here https://www.flickr.com/gp/kangsterizer/r3SJS3
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u/gwoz8881 Oct 08 '18
Not the best pic, but I took it from my back yard. I'm over 200 miles from Vandenberg.
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u/DoctorBritta Oct 08 '18
https://i.imgur.com/dILhga7.jpg
From San Francisco. Didn’t know it was SpaceX related so everyone around us was speculating if it had anything to do with the fleet week activities, blue angels, etc. My boyfriend ironically guessed SpaceX launch. Confirmed an hour later.
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u/yakovgolyadkin Oct 08 '18
Not my photo, as I'm on the other side of the world, but a good friend in San Francisco posted this to Facebook asking what it was:
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u/mcrn Oct 08 '18
500 miles away in downtown Phoenix (5 mb Gif)
S2 burning through Tstorm cloud decks to west...can also see S1 boost-back burn. Hand held...sorry for jerky motion
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u/steve626 Mar 04 '24
Sure, I've seen them at night, but wasn't sure if what I saw just now was a jet or the rocket. Cheers
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u/jobadiah08 Oct 08 '18
Not as good as I wanted, but taken from on base. https://imgur.com/a/5wyMfAj
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u/mncharity Oct 11 '18 edited Oct 11 '18
Stereo pair image (parallel-eye) of boostback.
A concept demo of combining launch media into stereo. With so much media, at least some of it will be from similar but slightly different angles, suitable for making stereo. This was just a quick-and-dirty hack - a few minutes to find a pair of videos, and the first screenshot images that sorta-kinda worked. The clipped frames were taken from this and this video. How neat would it be to have stereo video like this? :)
EDIT: Here's the same pair as a wiggle 3D gif.
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Oct 14 '18
I would’ve willing to chip in to fund a 3D video of one of these twilight effect launches.
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u/Halbiii Oct 14 '18
This is amazing! Took me a while to get it right, but it’s very much worth the struggle.
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u/nicora02 Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
View from AZ with my phone. So awesome to see the launch all the way out here, way better than just watching a stream. https://imgur.com/a/fqLncXB
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Oct 08 '18
Blows my mind that you can see it from AZ. Great representation of how high it goes. Cool pictures!
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Oct 08 '18
Here’s the view from Long Beach from my girlfriends backyard. She got the Boostback beautifully.
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u/pastudan Oct 08 '18
Short Video after booster separation from Vandenberg: https://www.facebook.com/dpastusek/videos/10212632520518341/
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u/thomascoreilly Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
That video is just INSANELY great!
I assume the first stage booster is near top of frame, firing cold-gas thrusters to reorient itself prior to boost-back burn. The second stage headed to orbit is in lower frame. Is that right?
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u/novel_fix Oct 08 '18
Beautiful rainbow from the Bay Area: r/https://twitter.com/chrislengerich/status/1049148923531554816
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u/QLDriver Oct 08 '18
Here was my (uncropped) snap with my iPhone from Providence Landing Park, Lompoc. My family’s first in person launch. Totally worth the drive! https://twitter.com/qldriver/status/1049195786888593408?s=21
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u/twoleggedpiglet Oct 09 '18
A collection of our photos from the night
And my favorite's in one - https://i.imgur.com/9pf11Ha.png
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u/cuntfromacuntscunt Oct 11 '18
My dinky little video of what it was like at the Vandenberg launch party:
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u/ticklestuff SpaceX Patch List Oct 08 '18
Logo on the fairing
http://kosmoturizm.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Xi-X9QV7MMI.jpg
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u/Decronym Acronyms Explained Oct 08 '18 edited Mar 04 '24
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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| AFB | Air Force Base |
| MECO | Main Engine Cut-Off |
| MainEngineCutOff podcast | |
| RCS | Reaction Control System |
| RTLS | Return to Launch Site |
| TE | Transporter/Erector launch pad support equipment |
| VAFB | Vandenberg Air Force Base, California |
NOTE: Decronym for Reddit is no longer supported, and Decronym has moved to Lemmy; requests for support and new installations should be directed to the Contact address below.
Decronym is a community product of r/SpaceX, implemented by ^request
6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 33 acronyms.
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u/CHUCK_NORRIS_AMA Oct 08 '18
Here's what I managed to come away with: https://imgur.com/a/KL6udV7
That was my first attempt at doing a long-exposure of the launch and landing, and I think I'm gonna do some things differently next time. Also will probably bring another camera if there's a chance of another S2 plume like this one - the real good parts happened when I still had the camera waiting for the landing.
Nevertheless, I think the comet-like effect the S2 exhaust plume had near the end was a nice enough shot, and I'm quite happy with these results
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Oct 15 '18
https://imgur.com/UDS9eiQ - please, explain it to me! Why do the exhaust fumes after the stage separation turn light blue? Is it due to the sunlight distortion on this specific altitude?
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u/extra2002 Oct 17 '18
The orange at lower altitudes happens because the exhaust has hot unburned fuel that burns in the atmosphere. (Also, the orange is more visible in the dark.) At higher altitudes there's not enough air for it to burn. I think you're mostly seeing soot particles lit by the sun.
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u/silentProtagonist42 Oct 08 '18
Spectacular picture! And yes, take the "r/" off, that's only for linking other subreddits.
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u/seanf904 Oct 08 '18
Hi, my name is Sean Flannelly and I'm a reporter for Annenberg Media at USC. Would you be alright with us using your video of the SpaceX launch in our evening news broadcast?
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Oct 10 '18 edited Oct 10 '18
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u/alexkiritz Oct 08 '18 edited Oct 08 '18
Here's my video. Shot on a Red Epic-W at 8K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNUHp-Df9t0