The fiery trail of the rocket and star trails

At sunset on 6 December, the booster Electron American company Rocket Lab launched with Peninsula Mahia in New Zealand. The launch was carried out in the framework of the mission Running Out of Fingers to deliver multiple small satellites in low earth orbit.

The fiery trail of the rocket toward the South. Drifting contrails and exhaust plumes are slightly illuminated by the setting sun, whose rays still illuminate the sky along the flight path.

From the perspective mounted on a camera tripod top point fire arc nearly coincides with the South celestial pole. Through the use of a long exposure time, the photograph shows the so-called star trails, obtained by rotation and, accordingly, displacement of the Earth relative to the stars over a period of time.

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