Chinese rocket over Hawaii

[rocketman]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy..._mob_em_ru

Some great pics of a rocket reentering the atmosphere last night from Mauna Kea.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Great link & photos rocketman.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard

[beejee]

Amazing shots rocketman. I would have loved to see that in person. Thanks for posting pics!

[TomK]

Thanks for that, rocketman, amazing pictures. We're operating in wide field mode at the moment and may well have accidentally captured some of those trails on the arrays, I'll have to check.

[Obie]

Very cool pictures !

[Guest]

Thank you for sharing those photos rocket man, I guess one never knows what they will see fall from the sky anymore. This recent rocket launched from China may be the one seen breaking up in those photos?

http://www.popsci.com/gaofen-4-worlds-mo...into-space

If you read the full story the added photos of the possible secret satilite are quite amazing as well?.

[birdmove]

Wow!!!

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[TomK]

The CFHT Cloudcam managed to catch the re-entry as the trails headed to the north east. It's very quick and happens around the 2am HST mark.

http://goo.gl/WYFPej