Posted on Sep 4, 2021

APOD: 2021 September 4 - A Falcon 9 Nebula

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Good afternoon, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "A Falcon 9 Nebula." Night launches at Kennedy Space Center are always spectacular (my last one was STS-130 in February 2010). This one from Sunday (Aug 29th) continues that tradition. Here we see a single photo some three minutes into the most recent Falcon 9 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The upper bright point is the first stage executing its descent burn, and the lower bright point is the second stage continuing on into low-Earth orbit. The halo of smoke (and probably some dust from the fires out West) complete the picture. Not a bad view for a quarter after 3 in the morning.

APOD: 2021 September 4 - A Falcon 9 Nebula

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Thank you my space-exploration and NASA advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday, September 4, 2021 entitled "Earth and Moon."

Image: A Falcon 9 Nebula - Image Credit & Copyright - Dennis Huff

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"Explanation: Not the Hubble Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 29. The snapshot was taken at 3:17am from Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. That's about 3 minutes after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-23 mission to resupply the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage of the rocket rising through still dark skies. The lower bright dot is the second stage continuing on to low Earth orbit. The upper one is the rocket's first stage performing a boostback burn. Of course the first stage booster returned to make the first landing on the latest autonomous drone ship to arrive in the Atlantic, A Short Fall of Gravitas."

Richard and Mimi Farina - Falcon
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