[NLRS] Vega launch gasses

[Bill Davis via NLRS]

  I really don't know how all the facebook thing worked or didn't. I posted the same image on my Website "News". Nothing different, just perhaps a better place to post it. Sorry about the delayed post. Tuesday morning I was looking for launch data to see if it might have been a rocket launch. But again at this high latitude how could it have been? It was not until last night that I found the launch angle. That solved the mystery. HOW I WISH I COULD have gotten a shot right away. It was just one of those insane moments of what the heck is that and you don't want to take you eyes off of it except to literately rub them a couple of times to see if it goes away. It didn't. I have been try to work with time stamps on the photos which are not on daylight savings time and was off a few min too. Was it a tank vent or an actual firing that I initially saw. I see other web photos that look the same, but none that look like my initial observation, although at least one other person described it similarly. I was hoping I could find a complete launch time line. I have launch and 2nd stage seperation but nothing after that, as far as precise times are concerned.




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