Space shuttle Discovery STS-119 launch
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Someone took a lot of photos... :P
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god exist
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cOOL ASS CAMERA!
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he works for the Orlando Sentinel, our local metropolitan newspaper. Nice video
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Did you think that one guy took enough photos of the launch?
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LOL only thing you hear is click click click click click click click click click click
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I was at Kennedy Space Center during the launch! It was incredible!!
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I was there on march 15th beautifull shot :-)
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Cool video. and that camera rocks!
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This isn't the Discovery launch from Sunday, March 15th, 2009, as the video details suggest. That launch was at 7:43PM EST, which after Daylight Savings, should be at dusk, not at night. You can clearly see on the other YouTube videos of the launch that the sky is still blue. I saw the launch from East Orlando and remember vividly the sunset shining on a section of the smoke cloud.
FLDude23 2 years ago
From the person who shot the video:
This was the March 15 launch... since my priority was still photos I just stuck the video camera (a Sanyo Xacti HD1000) on a gorilla pod and set the exposure manually to what my still camera was set to (f6.3 1/640 shutter ISO 200). I did this to avoid confusing the camera which would no doubt be too slow to catch up with the change in exposure automatically.
Hope that clears things up!
OrlandoSentinel 2 years ago