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Rocket and Missile Launches Are Often Dubbed "UFOs" But they're actually a lot of fun to photograph if you can plan ahead to set up for them.  Here are photos and video from a NASA rocket launch I caught along the California Coast:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2014/07/04/nasas-oco-2-satellite-launch-yesterday/ If you heard about the "UFO" over California last night, Philip Plait explains that it was just a Navy Trident missile test: Naval Missile Test Freaks Out LA http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/07/california_mystery_light_trident_missile_test_seen_by_thousands.html #rocket   #launch   #nightphotography   #california   Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan NASA's OCO-2 Satellite Launch Yesterday The original July 1 launch was delayed 24 hours due to a technical glitch in the water lines for an acoustic suppression system in the launch pad.  The delay to yesterday morning, July 2, enabled Lori Hibbett and I to pick a new...

Rocket Launch at Vandenberg AFB So social media went nuts last night over what apparently turned out to be a Trident missile launch.  It's fun to capture missile launches when they're announced ahead of time.  This is Lori Hibbett  capturing the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2) satellite shortly after launch in the early morning hours of July 2, 2014.   This 15 second exposure starts around 4 minutes, 40 seconds into the OCO-2 satellite launch last July, as the cover is jettisoned off the satellite, the Delta II's first stage cuts off and the second stage ignites.  I was shooting with three cameras at once, one capturing a time-lapse sequence of several hours at wide angle, another shooting live video, this one my Canon 5D Mark III with a  70-200mm lens at 70mm to get more detailed shots of the rocket than the wide angle time-lapse would capture.  As the rocket headed south, I realized that it was moving toward where Lori was shooting, so...