The Sequester - detain satellite - toting rocket , Minotaur 1 , soared off into space at around 8 pm last night , giving much of the East Coast a brief - but - awesome light show . We asked you to upload your best shooter , and there were a few gem to be found by the end of the dark .
Check five of them out below — we also included a few nice ones from around the net ( NASA ’s is up top ) . And if you missed the launching , do n’t worry : The next scheduled blast - off from the same facility , on Wallops Island , Virginia , isdue to happen on December 15 .
A champion ofmwhite66took this shot from Northern Virginia , about 20 miles west of DC :
Auroranexustook this one from southerly Pennsylvania :
Arcanetook a slightly shivering - but - still - playfulness video :
Here ’s an awesome shot fromVirtualMirage , taken from Lookout Point , Maryland :
Meanwhile , Robert Hartleytook this very dark scene from Hoboken , showing the thin logical argument of the trajectory itinerary :
boomboomboompointed out this photo fromxmrrushxon Flickr / CC :
Meanwhile , on the Flickrs and the Twitters , there were pot of other excellent shots . Ben Wurst(Flickr / CC ) took this from Bass River , NJ :
Jason Kuffer(Flickr / CC ) demand this arcing shot of the arc over Manhattan :
And on the magnetic north shore of Long Beach , Flickr userChris Swann(Flickr / CC ) shot this endearing photo :
Thanks to everyone who put their shots online !
Lead prototype : NASA / Allison Stancil , taken from Wallops Island , VA .
https://gizmodo.com/when-and-where-to-watch-tonights-minotaur-rocket-launc-1467767301
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