Saturday, October 03, 2009

The final frontier...

Awesome photo of a Delta 4 Heavy liftoff at Cape Canaveral.

Some photos are worth getting a lens trashed...



(H/T to Nathan Brindle.)
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5 comments:

Turk Turon said...

WOW!
Amazing.

9:54 AM, October 03, 2009
Anonymous said...

I don't know what the cost of equipment damaged to get that shot was.. but it was worth it.

Jim

12:03 PM, October 03, 2009
drjim said...

Where I work (Sea Launch), we have cameras about 10 FEET from the pad. They're enclosed in a 1/2" thick steel enclosure with a 2" thick abalative coating, and a two layer borosilicate glass window. The outer window usually gets trashed, but generally the inner window stays intact.

2:42 PM, October 03, 2009
Unknown said...

The picture is amazing. Here is a link to a behind the scenes of how it was taken: http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4-Heavy_DSP-23_camera.html

8:19 PM, October 04, 2009
Don said...

Didja read the comments? I didn't read them all, but they were running about 50% people saying "Pffft . . . the timer did all the work, that guy sucks."

People are idiots.

3:49 AM, October 05, 2009

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