Archives for January 2006
Saturn at Opposition
Published on 28 Jan 2006 at 2:35 pm.
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Filed under Images, Observation Log.
The weather cooperated nicely this evening as did my Autostar controller (for a nice change) and I was able to get this image of Saturn 4 hours and 30 minutes past opposition.
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This image is a stack of about 500 frames, pixel doubled and then light level correct in Photoshop CS2 (mainly to make [...]
My Shots of the New Horizons Launch
Published on 19 Jan 2006 at 3:10 pm.
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Filed under Images, Observation Log.
These are shots I took of the New Horizons launch from my front yard on the other side of Florida — about 140 miles away from the launch site.
The filenames indicate date and time as YYMMDD_HHMMSS Eastern Standard Time.
Notice shot 060119_140207 also has an highly processed version as well. This was [...]
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New Horizons Launch Attempt Today
Published on 19 Jan 2006 at 12:50 pm.
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Greetings and welcome back to the “Big Rocket Show.”
12:54 PM: So far so good.
- Announcing green for all weather constraints.
- Built in 10 minute hold coming up at T-4 minutes.
- Clouds need to thin a little or the launch will be delayed while they switch to a different weather configuration.
1:04 PM: No go due [...]
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New Horizons Launch Scrubbed Again
Published on 18 Jan 2006 at 12:53 pm.
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NASA has scrubbed Wednesday’s launch attempt of the New Horizons spacecraft due to an unresolved power outage.
A major power outage in Maryland — including the Applied Physics Laboratory where the critcal Mission Operations Center is located — has postponed today’s launch.
The next attempt is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 19 during the window extending [...]
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New Horizons Mission
Published on 17 Jan 2006 at 1:18 pm.
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Today’s launch was scrubbed. Below is a blow by blow of how things proceeded through the launch window.
• 1:15 PM: T-4 minutes and holding. The launch has been postponed from 1:24 PM EST to 1:45 PM EST.
- Investigating a “fill and drain” valve on the Atlas V which failed earlier during topping off activities but [...]
