On a clear evening, as the vibrant colors of a luminous sunset paint the western sky, be sure to look back to the east and treat yourself to the Belt of Venus. This delicate, pink band blankets the steadily rising, deep blue shadow of approaching night. It is the place where the last rays of sunlight filter through the sky and escape into infinity. As an amateur astronomer, this spectacle reminds me of a theater curtain slowly rising to reveal the wonders of the night sky.
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impresionante como en este video puede verse el domo eh chavales y chavalas ...... im per sonante .... dicho primer domo esta entre 120 y 175 km altura .... ya sabes ..... lo que en la biblia llaman las aguas de arriba .... Solo lo puede ver y entender el ue no esta programado
Especially towards the end where it starts to dissipate, super noticable. One of those times it'd be nice to be right near it because possibly Uncondensed ground circ, especially at the end
I've taken many TL's that never see the light of day. Thanks for sharing this day with us. Perhaps, I need to relook at some of my older TL's. Thank you Jeremy!
It's so time consuming to edit those together, isn't it? I have a bunch of time lapse & hyperlapse that I haven't gotten to. But pretty rewarding to see all that fluid action in the atmosphere. Looking forward to any of yours you can get to!
Nice capture. I filmed this also down in Phoenix with a Nikon P1000. I've gotten others of these where I zoomed in when it flies directly over and you can see some decent detail on the Falcon 9 second stage fairing.
Awesome footage! You got the clearest Starlink stack footage I've seen yet of this mission! (I couldn't really film it because of clouds) Hopefully, there will be a pass soon where it'll be sunlit after the RCS maneuver, so you can get to see the Starlinks & second stage quickly start heading away from each other.
Thanks! Bummer about the clouds. But yeah at first quick glance I thought I was seeing motion blur on those, but it was pointing the wrong direction and the 2nd stage wasn't doing the same thing, then realized it was legit structure. Pretty interesting to see that. Good call on seeing how that separation would look if it passed a bit earlier in twilight.
Also, the two Starlink stacks that last launched will be visible this afternoon for you! I tried giving a link to my post on Twitter that shows a map & times, but YT won't let me.
Was in Valle last night but missed it. We were busy watching that full moon rising to our east/southeast over the San Francisco Peaks. That was awesome. Wish I had a camera
I've been fortunate to follow @Dillonshrop06 and @dblanchard_AZ on X/Twitter and gotten some heads-up that I'd otherwise miss about those events. Several of them the last couple months.
@@BeltOfVenus Thanks for the tip. David Blanchard is a retired met in the Flagstaff area. Had the pleasure of meeting him out on the trail a few times. Anyway, love your videos. I'm getting out of Flagstaff this weekend. Too crowded for me 😂
@@matthewcraig8926 Hahah yeah I've crossed paths with David in the wild a couple times too, besides some of the Flagstaff Cloud Appreciator events. Great guy! And totally with you on the Flagstaff Memorial Day Weekend crowd factor already. Sheesh.
This isn't the deorbit burn. The engine isn't firing, it's simply the second stage, starlink stack & gas illuminated by the sun. Currently, for Florida starlink launches, at around T+1:34:08 it does the avoidance maneuver, which is a cold gas thrust that pushes it away from the starlink stack. (This is a very visible puff that only lasts a few seconds.) The deorbit burn happens after the avoidance maneuver, which is a bit after it passes North America.
Thanks, de-burn was how it was originally described to me, but easily stand corrected. I tried to confirm, but so far haven't been able to locate specific orbital event details/timings beyond the initial launch and 1st stage landing timings. When I check the SpaceX site, I haven't found how to get deeper than that surface info. If you get a chance, I'd be very appreciative if you have a link to some of that info!
@@BeltOfVenus Here's what I know: At ~T+0:54:00 is SES 2, which is a quick Circularization Burn followed by Payload Deployment at ~T+1:05:25. These happen off the coast of Southeast Asia. The only thing I'm able to "study" directly is the [T+1:34:25 puff] now recently [T+1:32:08 puff] The stack sat next to the stage until the T+1:32:08 puff, then it parted with the stack surprisingly fast. I was expecting them to part but not anything that dramatic. The whole point is presumably that when the second stage does its de-orbit burn it won't cook the satellites. Thus, the de-orbit burn would happen after the T+1:32:08 puff. To narrow it down further, we know when it'll re-enter due to the NOTAM/NOTMARs [x.com/Raul74Cz/status/1791465125703991704 ] leaving the de-orbit burn somewhere over Brazil Columbia or Central America, but I can't for the life of me find any footage of the de-orbit burn. One of the main reasons I really want to know all this is that I can map out when & where the fuel dumps are as those are the most spectacular. I presume this happens after the de-orbit burn, but info is scarce. Links: [spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/15/falcon-9-launch-timeline-for-the-starlink-1-mission/ ] [spaceflightnow.com/2023/06/23/falcon-9-starlink-5-12-coverage/ ]
@@calebrey wow! really helpful! Thank you - the small RCS burn, or whatever that should be called over California/Nevada/Arizona has been pretty reliable the last 3 launches I've watched for it. But I haven't been even attempting to time it with any precision like you've documented. Really appreciate it!
@@BeltOfVenus No problem! It used to be reliably ~T+1:34:25 for at least a year, but it suddenly changed, like a little over a week ago, to T+1:32:08, which really threw me off.
Giorgio, it's good to hear from you! It's been a long while. I think my last sketch was of C/2020 F3 NEOWISE back in 2020 perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/2020/07/20/comet_c2020_f3_3/ How about yourself? Still lunar sketching?
I saw it last night too! Out camping at Roosevelt Lake and had no idea what it was haha. Thanks for getting a video! I only got a couple of blurry photos and a time lapse picture. Did you also see the big reddish aura in the sky like 10 seconds afterwards?
Very cool. I've heard from a few people that saw it while out doing something else. I didn't catch the red ionosphere punch like you did...wish I had been shooting another camera wider and for longer to catch that. One of those funny things that one likely doesn't see visually until an active camera tells otherwise. Another photographer up here caught that bit too & posted over at SpaceWeather spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=206381
Good catch. Lots of SpaceX visuals going on up there these days. Good info on both launches at SpaceWeather: spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=05&year=2024
Very nice catch i haven't been able to catch a Landspout yet or Supercell Tornado on Land however i live very close to Lake Erie i see Waterspouts alot up their mostly Fairweather Waterspouts similar to Landspouts but at times we do get a Tornadic Waterspout (Supercell Tornado over Water)
Goes to show that any cloud when lit is while like a cloud. Theoretically, a light could light up the underside of a storm and make the tornado as white as the top of the cumulonimbus cloud .
If I recall correctly, it was relatively isolated. I think there was some other lesser convection trying to get going on the east/downrange side of it, but it was dominant and had clean inflow.
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Cool! Glad somebody caught it on film. So is the correct abbreviation SRS? Funny thing is that the Forestry Service was doing a burn operation nearby and the updraft from the heat column and that scud cloud were connected for quite a time. Was interesting to watch when I was out working on a fence near the hwy 180/Snow Bowl intersection. Hopefully this premiere of monsoonal pattern happens during the Summertime. I'd hate to get another 2019 or 2020.
Glad you caught that view with slash piles beneath it! I sure hope we get a decent monsoon this year, although seems I heard some thoughts that it might be drier than average. Haven't dug into that claim so far, but hopefully not the case.
Now that's just plain rude Jeremy. Lol. jk. I have seen a couple of beautiful snakes down along the Verde River this last month. Their habitat was, lets just say, a little disrupted after this last winter. Anyway, hope we get some action wx wise during this transition season. So far California Lows ejecting too quickly, lifting out up into the Great Basin, keeping best dynamics west and north of us, but we'll see what happens next few weeks.
Hah, yeah lots of water flowing & ponding in places it often doesn't. I keep thinking about exploring along the Rio de Flag and flipping stuff over to see how things are looking this spring. Monsoon season just a few weeks away now.
@@BeltOfVenus I hiked from Lower Lake Mary down to near the border of Walnut Canyon in mid April. Most water I have ever seen in that stream since I moved here in 2006. Looks like we may get a pseudo monsoon pattern next week and some high based action, though some of the profiles suggest a possibility of lower levels with higher than average moisture content. Could get interesting. Anyway, love your content. Have fun and stay safe out there.
I really enjoy watching spiders. The Phidiippi in the backyard are quite friendly. Since I live near the coast in Central California, the climate is moderate, and although the jumping spiders largely disappear in the winter, there are a few that pop up all year long. Therefore I don't feel bad about leaving the Johnson's Jumpers to find their own niches for the winter. Your video is wonderful. but there seems to be so much work involved. I believe leaving the spiders outside is probably best for them and more enjoyable for me. Well done. Thanks for sharing.🕷🕸
Thanks for that comment, Leanna! I agree, that was a LOT of effort. I'm glad for the chance to try it at least once, but that was enough:) Earlier this winter, when I found another mamma spider on my kitchen ceiling, who looked ready for egg laying, I took her out to the garage. At least temperatures shouldn't be as bitter in there with plenty of places to seek shelter and let the young ones find their way.
Except that you left a huge water droplet in the deli cup. With the book lungs on jumping spiders, you can kill them that way. Be sure to either get all the droplets of water on the paper towel, or lightly mist the lid of the deli cup.
