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Orionid Meteor Shower, Bad Weather Viewing In Florida

Poor Meteor Shower Viewing In Florida Overnight
I planned to get up early this morning to view the Orionid Meteor Shower, but mother nature is keeping me from seeing it. Heavy mid and upper level cloud cover this morning is killing a good meteor shower show here in Florida. Most of Florida is dealing with high […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Video and Pictures

 
The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour yesterday was outstanding like always. The sky was very hazy much of the day and at launch time, making the view of Endeavour a little cloudy looking from our view along the Banana River causeway bridge. The current high pressure ridging over the Southeast United States that’s been helping […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Set For Launch Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be up at Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the Space Shuttle launch of Endeavour as it blast into space for STS-118 mission. It will continue the space station construction by delivering a third starboard truss segment to the International Space Station. The launch is planned for 6:36pm Eastern Time, and weather is a […]

Phoenix Spacecraft Launch Gas Trail Leftovers Picture

 
I completely forgot about the launch this morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida of the Delta II rocket that carried the Phoenix Spacecraft on it’s journey to Mars. Kersten woke me about 5:55am on her way out the door to work, all hyped up about something outside in the sky. I rushed to the front deck […]

Strange STS-117 Atlantis Cloud Smoke Left Overs

I was going through my digital photographs of the STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis launch the from this past Friday June 8, 2007, and I completely forgot all about this very cool picture of some cloud formation about 45 minutes after the launch. We were stopped along I-95 at a I-Hop for some dinner, and when […]

STS-117 Atlantis Shuttle Launch Video & Photos

 
While South Florida on Friday was enjoying heavy rains from the upper-level low that was bringing much needed drought busting rainfall, central Florida was picture perfect for a space shuttle launch. I headed up to Cape Canaveral, Florida for the launch of Space Shuttle STS-117 Atlantis. I brought my mother and her boyfriend for their […]

A fine Florida Sunset, But No Comet McNaught

Oh yeah, just another cloud filled evening on Thursday keeping my forth day in a row far from viewing Comet MaNaught in the western sky. This time the high-level cirrus clouds were gone, but the nice onshore flow of large celled stratocumulus kept me kicking dirt as I scanned the horizon. Early in the day […]