SpaceX Starlink 4-17 2022-05-06
Launch of SpaceX's Starlink group 4-17.
1:41 The first stage just starts to become visible at the bottom of the 2nd stage plume.
2:04 The two faring halves are visible below the plume, though they're obscured by the tree.
2:17 The two faring halves emerge from behind the tree.
3:28 Re-entry burn begins.
The second stage is still visible for the rest of the video, though the sunrise obscures it some.
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SpaceX Starlink 4-6 2022-01-18
This launch was partially obscured by clouds, and the rocket was going South, rather than North, so the rocket was actually going away from the camera.
Lightning 2021-12-30
A couple of large and very loud lightning strikes.
The first three views are the first strike. West down, West up, North East up (It wraps around the whole house!) The first two cameras are indoors and so the sound is muffled. The third one is outdoors.
Second three are the second strike. Same sequence of cameras.
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ULA Atlas V STP-3 Launch 2021-12-07
Launch of the "Space Test Program-3" for the US Space Force on an Atlas V rocket.
Probably not worth watching, but I'm posting it anyway!
It was very overcast, and I didn't think I'd be able to see it, but it's visible for at least parts of the launch.
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SpaceX Turksat 5B 2021-12-18
Launch of the Turksat 5B satellite on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, as viewed from the Charleston area. The clouds barely cooperated for this one!
Bonus Orion in the top right, and the sounds of me checking through the blinds if I could see the launch (I couldn't).
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SpaceX Starlink Group 4-3 2021-12-02
Launched on a Falcon9 Block 5 rocket. This is the ninth launch and landing of this particular booster, and this is the 27th launch by SpaceX this year. (a record!)
Apparently they stopped numbering the Starlink launches by a simple count, and are instead labeling them by 'Group'.
These satellites are part of 'Starlink Shell 4' which will be in a 540km orbit.
Re-entry burn at 3:34.
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Meteor 2021-11-16 01:17:59
The AMS event for this meteor:
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/7797
Meteor 2021-11-10 21:11:23
Bright meteor that happened during the SpaceX Crew 3 launch.
Meteor is at the bottom right through the trees. If you look closely, you can see the Crew 3 second stage through the trees at the bottom middle.
Lucy Atlas V 401 Launch 2021-10-16
Launch of the Lucy probe, which is planned to visit 8 asteroids over it's mission.
At 1:04 is first stage cut off.
At 1:08 is either second engine start, or the burn of engines to pull the first stage away from the second. Hard to tell from the live stream, as they didn't have visual of the rocket at that time.
SpaceX Crew3 2021-11-10
Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 with a Dragon 2 space craft for the Crew 3 mission to the ISS. The flashes to grey are a result of running this through a video editor. I believe the original videos had some errors that were preventing me from joining the two clips (the recorder automatically clips every 10 minutes). I haven't found a way to fix it, yet.
Re-entry burn at 4:20.
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Meteor 2021 10-10 22:03:29
Left side. Mostly obscured by clouds.
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6470
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Meteor 2021-10-08 22:33:06
Right side. There's only one. The others are internal reflections of the double-paned glass this camera looks through.
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6407
SpaceX Inspiration4 Launch 2021-09-15
This is the first all-civilian rocket launch in history!
The rocket was high enough to be lit by the sun, so it was more spectacular than usual. The first stage can be seen trailing behind, sending out puffs from it's cold gas thrusters to reorient for landing.
After the second stage disappears behind the big cloud near the center, the first stage can be seen re-appearing (at 2:29) from behind the clouds and falling, until it disappears in the Earth's shadow.
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SpaceX CRS-23 Launch 2021-08-29
The rocket enters the frame at the bottom right, just after second engine startup, and during the boostback burn. The smaller object is the second stage, the brighter object to the right is the first stage doing it's boostback burn. In this case, it's just slowing the first stage down, and not sending it 'back', as you can see the re-entry burn at 3:04 on the bottom right.
Also: The group of stars just left of the moon-bloom is the Pleiades star cluster.
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Meteor 2021-07-25 23:11:33
Starts in the back of the house, top of the screen, then switches to the front of the house. Can't miss it there.
AMS report for the event though the track appears to be incorrect, based on what I see and where I am.
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/4001
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Meteor 2021-05-17 04:25
Starts on the right edge, towards the bottom, then just as it finishes, another one at the top right.
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Meteor 2021-05-23 21:38
Watch starting from the roof overhang. There's several reflections from the double-pane window in front of the camera. I don't have a good way to get the camera outside in the front.
SpaceX Starlink 27 Launch 2021-05-09 with the Milky Way
This is the first time a falcon 9 booster has flown and land 10 times. It launched 60 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.
Re-entry burn at 3:47.
Bonus view of the Milky Way!
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SpaceX Starlink 25 Train 2021-05-08
The Starlink 25 train of satellites. Starts top left and they disappear into the Earth's shadow a little left of center. This group is all 60 satellites from that launch. The 'trails' are just an artifact of the noise reduction algorithm in the camera.
Bonus satellite starting at 00:56 at the top, slightly right of center. I'm fairly sure it's Starlink-1293 which was launched March 18th 2020 on Starlink 5. It moves down till it disappears behind the trees, though it's very dim by then and hard to see. If you're wondering why we can see that one move further east than the train of Starlink satellites, the answer is orbital altitude. Starlink-1293 is at it's operational altitude of 547km, where the train is still moving up, and is currently at 294km.
The bright object moving in a similar path is probably a plane, since there's nothing on the satellite trackers about anything that bright being in there at that time. The flashing object later on it obviously a plane.
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SpaceX Starlink 23 Train 2021-04-27
Played first at 8x speed, because not everyone has the patience to watch over eight minutes of satellites flying by. Then repeated starting at 01:40 in real time.
I count 43 satellites. Keep an eye on the two 'gaps', as there's a satellite there that comes into view about halfway down, plus there's three satellites at the end that come into view around the same place.
Also: There is a satellite flare at 01:01 (repeated in real time at 09:19). Watch the left side of the screen.
SpaceX Starlink 24 Launch 2021-04-28
Sadly, not a near-dawn launch to light up the sky like the last one, but still fun to watch, in a calming kinda way.
Re-entry burn at 3:54.
SpaceX Crew2 Launch 2021-04-23
Easily the best visual of a launch I've captured so far. The rocket was high enough to catch the light of the sun, so the entire plume was lit, in addition to the first stage, and it's cold gas thrusters firing to orient it for landing.
Re-entry burn at 04:18 though the trees are mostly in the way.
Bonus meteor at 01:38, top center.
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