Hello,
I just came back from the parking lot in front of my office.
I was hoping, against the odds, to see the Titan IV launch
from Vandenberg AFB. Just when I was about to go back in,
discouraged by the clouds, I saw the thin track of the rocket
climbing up in a patch of clear sky! Yesssss!!! :-)
After going back in, I had another pleasant surprise - I
had the Lick Observatory webcam site open on my desktop, to
check the weather. One of the cams was showing a faint but
unmistakable thin white streak - it had captured the launch!
Hastily, I copied the image from the webcam, before it got
refreshed and uploaded it for safekeeping on my site. Here
is the URL:
http://astro.avtanski.com/images/latest1.jpg
Can you see the rocket? (Look carefully at the left side of
the image.)
What a day! :-)
- Alex
Received on Wed Oct 19 12:00:40 2005
