spaceX red contrails in the milky way
Taken by Christopher Hoffman on June 19, 2022 @
Saint Mary's County Maryland
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Went out for a milky way session with first time photographers to lent a helping hand teaching them how to capture the milky way and set up their cameras. After a while everyone was getting the idea. Just after 12:30 EST in Saint Mary's first City we decided to move to another spot and started taking 20 and 30 second exposures and when the exposure was done I was seeing this red glowing huge area covering the milky way. My first thought was a spaceX launch. Not knowing that there was a planned launch for that evening. Everyone had an opinion about what it might be. A thin cloud,the moon rising just below the horizon and so on. Everyone left and when I got home at 2 Am I couldn't go to sleep without knowing what I just witnessed. So started doing some research and came across a few articles saying Falcon 9 launched at 12:27 and I just smiled and was completely in amazement of what we seen. The entire event took about 10 minutes or more and we watched it slowly disappear. Crazy thing was it was only visible in the images and not with the naked eye.
Photographer's website:
https://#Southernmarylandmoments
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