Ares 1x Liftoff

It's a bit early for bonfine night, though, isn't it?

I was working on site today, so I missed it. Have to make do with watching the action replay .

Excellent photo, BTW.

Many Thanks as always A-H, please keep 'em coming!

Thanks for the post and the pic, Anonymous Hero! I've linked to your thread in my own post about the Ares I-X launch. It's a relatively short one, but it contains a link to a photo album with pre-launch pictures from NASA photographer Joby Minor.

Good picture! It was too foggy this morning to see it from 800+/- miles away!

I noticed the sound was very different from the shuttle. It took about a minute for the sound to travel far enough south to get to me (it was going upwind to get to me). The first I heard was a shaking of steel building panels behind me. It was 5 seconds or more before I could hear it with my ears. For the 30 or so seconds that it lasted it was very low in frequency and different from any shuttle/rocket that I have heard in my many years down here. Any ideas AH? Was this just chance weather conditions or do the new rockets sound different?

My understanding was the motor was a Shuttle SRB with a slight reformulation of the propellant.

I am sure that spherics will affect what you hear. It was inaudible south of the Cape where I was.