Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow

12 responses to “Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow”

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Oct 17, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   Have fun NanoCat ; )

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   Scott C (sec611)

   Oct 17, 2009 at 3:56 pm

   It looks so close!
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   Seen on my Flickr home page. ( ?² )

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   jurvetson

   Oct 18, 2009 at 5:13 am

   I am at Vandenberg AFB, with the flight director and base Col.

   The upper stage excess momentum will be "discarded" by shooting it into the sun.

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Oct 18, 2009 at 10:24 am

   "by shooting it into the sun"……Sweet.
   I’ll look at the sun for impact =P

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   P^2 – Paul

   Oct 19, 2009 at 12:53 am

   Nice to see the launch was a success.

   shooting it into the sun … Cool.
   But if they have an engine that can muster the 18.6 mi/sec delta-V to pull that off, why do they need a upper first! stage? 🙂

   Did they just throw the garbage into solar orbit instead?

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   jurvetson

   Oct 19, 2009 at 2:00 am

   To heliocentric orbit, and beyond! (quoting Buzz Lightyear)

   There was 10K lbs of unused lift capacity on today’s launch. The Centaur upper stage had a lot of excess momentum to burn off (according to the flight director).

   Nobody has figured out single stage to orbit (that I know of… but I did hear a pitch for an end-burner with nano-aluminum that thought they could do it)

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   blaat70

   Oct 19, 2009 at 10:18 am

   wow awesome shot!
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   Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

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   kirainet

   Oct 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm

   my first shoot of the Moon, trying to emulate you but still a lot to improve!

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/torek/4025420083]

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   Abelio

   Oct 19, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   The World Through My Eyes

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    1000A

    Oct 19, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The World Through My Eyes

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11. 

    Ignacio Lizarraga

    Oct 19, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    nicely done!

    (1-2-3)

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    kirainet

    Oct 20, 2009 at 1:05 am

    by the way, just noticed that both of our Moon pictures were taken on the same day, October 3, 2009 (But from different places 🙂 ) I can only find some very subtle differences in orientation.

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