Launch of a Delta Rocket

As viewed from Port Canaveral, Florida

Feb. 26, 1987

Photos and text by Bob Hampton


Launch of a Delta Rocket

This Delta rocket deployed a GOES satellite.

Delta Rocket Launch

For these photos I used a Nikon FM2 camera attached to a Meade 2045 telescope, equivalent to a 1000mm telephoto lens.

Launch of a Delta Rocket



Photos © 1987 by Bob Hampton  All Rights Reserved

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