Starship Asterisk*

I wonder if it's one of the couple of insects seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pOegGGHrP0#t=1m05s

The photo description is here. It is written that 4 vertical photos were shot 35 minutes after sunset and combined afterwards. The observer is Daniel himself. The exposure time is not mentioned. I guess that it is approximately 1 minute or less.

I cheated. The EXIF information shows that the photo was taken at 2010:02:20 02:04:57 UTC. Then I found an ISS tracker that had past Keplerian elements for this time period. Voila, the ISS was over the Atlantic Ocean off Porto Alegre, the southern most tip of Brasil, and near Uruguay. The terrain m...

ULA's response in regards to the SDO's shock waves: The final thought back here is that the effect we saw was due either to shockwaves from the vehicle as it went supersonic (approximately 82 seconds into flight), or varying densities or shockwaves in the engine plume. One of these phenomena could ...

I wrote a bit about this rare and wonderful event in my Hebrew blog . Here are my thoughts: The waves appear instantly through the whole cirrus cloud. It indicates that they were produced earlier in some continuous process and hit the cloud at the same time. A rough estimate of their speed indicates...

DavidLeodis wrote:I am wondering if there was a matching sundog to the left and, if so, what happened to that

The sundog in the picture is the left one since the red color is always closest to the sun.