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Amateur smartphone still photos of tonight's #SpaceX #Starlink launch as seen from north Merritt Island.

@WordsmithFL

Must've been amazing to see from your driveway. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Stephen. 😊🚀

@JoyfullyDazed Sounds like fun, but I came back inside with about a dozen mosquito bites. 🙄

That's why the video is so shaky. I was trying to avoid mosquitoes. One went in my ear. Another landed on the hand holding the smartphone.

Welcome to Florida.

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@WordsmithFL

Thanks for withstanding a few bites so you could share pics with us. It certainly looked like a sight to see.

Have a great afternoon 😊

@JoyfullyDazed Hi Lisa ... Going back through my online archives, I found this sunrise launch from July 2018. I thought you might enjoy it. Not only is the launch eclipsed by its own exhaust plume, but we also got a very nice "jellyfish" at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veGmz8PIndg

@WordsmithFL

Wow! That's incredible to watch. Thank you for sharing it. Whenever I watch launches I get jealous and kick myself for not being a bigger space nerd when I was a kid. It fascinates me so much now.

I lost my vision many years ago but regained it a few years later, (cornea transplants), and even though I can see distance again, I never gained back the ability to see the stars at night. I miss it very much.

Thank you again. That was really fun to watch. 😊🚀

@JoyfullyDazed My eyesight isn't the greatest either. The skies here in east-central Florida are very clear so the stars tend to stand out.

This one is my favorite, a Falcon Heavy launch from January. It was at sunset and clear, so I was able to record the two boosters coming all the way back here.

(This one is for the deniers who claim SpaceX somehow fakes the landings ... 🙄 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPP6QtyJpuI

@WordsmithFL

Watching them take off will never get old to me. I get really jealous of the astronauts. 😂 But, I'm extremely claustrophobic so I know I wouldn't be very happy inside a suit, inside a rocket...lol. Still, what an amazing experience it must be. I look at the moon at night and think how cool is it that there are footprints there. I want my footprints to be there.

Thank you for sharing this video, Stephen. Hope you have a great weekend. 😊

@JoyfullyDazed Thank you for your interest and enthusiasm. I'll talk space 24/7 if allowed. (It used to be my job ...)

@WordsmithFL @JoyfullyDazed

Yuck