The Atlas V
« torch » radiates the ocher night of Cape Canaveral under the eyes
of alligators
Phot by : Julian Leek
View like an alligator.
- Photo : rke
Do you know how an alligator (or crocodile, by default) can see a rocket take off ? For
realizing, I went as close as possible to Atlas on the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station. NASA landed me on the edge (not on the Moon) of a river (NASA
Causeway) along on each side with two lagoons, one of which looks right in
front of the rocket. Taking care to see if I'm not with alligators (let us be
careful, the other night, in the same place, I had seen theis eyes, of
alligators. Yes,
yes, it's true), I set my gear (my Canon 1D Mark photo and 70-300 2.8 zoom)
on my tripod and video camera on my backpack laid on the grass. So, you will
have the sensation of seeing the rocket ... like an alligator (hi, hi, hi).
Photo : rke
Arm outstretched and thumbs up to eye level, the rocket is
on the tip of my finger. Around that spacecraft, projectors intersect and leave
them hang light beam in the clouds. Atlas, like a star circus leaves shine in
the sky black polish with a ceiling of clouds above it. Ah, only that event
worth the effort already being lived. A flintlock is noticeable far away. The
engines ignite the sky.
Atlas is now perceptible about 4 miles (as the crow
flies). My video remains stable, despite a slight warm wind rises. The rocket
rises gently illuminates the whole horizon already. Visible for miles around,
no sound is still noticeable. But five seconds later, the sound always cracking
reaches our ears. Naturally without shaking the soil, because it’s a small
rocket. The torch light is buried under the layer of clouds, spring on the
other side, appears again. It ‘s soon mixed a small star among others.. stars.
The alligator (that I’m) saw by its two binoculars an Atlas lift-off of on a nature reserve, without which
there would have been there (where we are standing), hotels and blocks of
concrete. And where there would have been no alligators ...
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