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> Dear Les and other listees,
> It is clearly a shadow caused by sun light. It happens to point MOONWARD
(it's
> not sun down there)... It was nearly a full moon at the time of lauch.
> Great photo anyway!
> Jarmo
Well spotted Jarmo! The disk at lower right looks like the sun.
However, a little more research reveals that the sun was 1 deg
below the horizon at launch (17.13 CST) so the object in the
image must indeed be the Moon which was almost full and 5 deg
above the horizon. The camera must therefore be pointing
eastwards and the shadow is cast by the very high exhaust
plume still in sunlight. A subtle piece of launch scheduling to
have it point to the Moon or a nice coincidence?
Les
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