Today’s clouds have stubbornly refused to clear out and tonight’s Sidewalk astronomy is cancelled.
We hope you all had a chance to see the SpaceX launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenburg Air Force Base last night. Spectacularly illuminated by the just set sun those lucky enough to look had a grand stand view of the separation of the first and second stages and then witness the second stage carrying the 10 Iridium Next satellites to a successful orbit insertion while the first stage returned to Earth ‘landing’ on the Pacific Ocean. I’ve posted a photo of the first and second stage separation evens on our Sidewalk Astronomers Facebook page: