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I posted this at CM too.
My father took these images from his house in Florida.
A scaled down version. Original was 3072x2304

At full resolution, a 700x700 crop from original resolution.

On another note, I'm patching together my damaged computer. Seems my SATA and USB drives are ok. My CPU seems to be fried. It fails when I use all 4 RAM modules. I can only use 3
My IDE drive still seems to have some life in it. It makes a lot of noise but earlier today it tried to boot. It got about half way through Win XP.

Last week I tried a very old drive that failed long ago. I actually have 2 of them. They are both Maxtor 10 GB drives, I think ATA33. The one drive was making the same noises as the 200 GB drive that failed recently. I was able to recover the 10 GB drive by swapping circuit boards with the 2 10 GB drives. This is something I'm going to try with the 200 GB drive. I'm going to take a trip to the computer recycle center to see if I can get a used circuit board for it.

My system board and/or CPU will probably have to replaced though. Also my graphics card got fried too. I'm using my old ge force fx 5500. I can't believe how slow it is compared with the 8600 that bit the dust.

Hope all is going well with you all though.
Later,
cartrite

Nice pics. Must be nice to be able to watch launches live. One of these days I hope to see one. Good luck with the pc.

Those pics were taken about a 150 miles away from the launch pad so it was probably visible from a lot of Florida. He said the best view is during a night launch.

I was sent to Orlando by my Company one year for training while the shuttle was due to go off. I took a few trips down to the Cape but each time it was canceled. It ended up lifting off while I was on my way home. I was only down in Florida visiting my Dad once during a launch but it got cloudy around his house and it was not visible. Some day maybe.
cartrite