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Lucky me! I've been busy with end of semester stuff during the previous attempts, but I get to be here for this one! Go, Starship!

And poorly done. You aren't going to get clouds of dust like that with no atmosphere around.

Landed booster. Seventh recovery successful! And the stack of Starlink are released. Nice.

Looks a bit blustery. Liftoff. Staging good. Entry burn complete.

SpaceX music time. And coverage is live. Why does Starlink have coverage cells?

When was the launch scrubbed? Why was the launch scrubbed?

Eh. It had a shot looking down from the booster shortly after liftoff that was pretty cool. I don't recall having seen such a thing in any of the Florida launches...they always show external shots of the liftoff. I'd like to see a side-by-side split excrements if the external and onboard views from a KSC launch.

Well, in some places pants are underwear. In other places pants are trousers. I presume he means the trouser kind of pants.

There was a little light on inside the trunk.

Falcon first stage has landed.

It's weird that the rocket is talking back.

MECO. Nice grid fins. Nice stage two Merlin burning.

Go, baby!

Nice venting sounds.

Lots of cars leaving the pad area visible in the shot from the crew access arm.

Shiny. It could make such a splat.

That is brilliant. Thanks for the link.

Nice clear sky. First stage entry burn... First stage landing successful!

Maybe. They need to determine the problem first.

The venting from the second stage is great, too. Nice lighting on this mission. Satellite deployed. Another excellent job. Still a couple rideshare says to dump off later.

Nice view of separation and start of boostback. Beautiful views of the landing! The cloud layer streaming through the grid fins was very nice. That's an orbit plot I've never seen.

Seems like they got it on the ship pretty quickly. But the water looks quite calm today.

Spacecraft separation good. The craft is on its way to Mars. Nice job!

My nemesis tonight was WIND. We had thunderstorms early, but the sky started clearing up afterward...but the wind continued. So my shots were jiggly jiggly. The comet was by Talitha and Talitha Australis (iota and kappa UMa... one of the Great Bear's paws), at the bottom of the photo. I tried for more tail with 30-second exposures...but sooo much jiggle. And in the picture below, I increased the color saturation to see if that was an ion tail on the left, and indeed it looks bluer than the other tail.

Congratulations on your first comet. May you have many more. In my binoculars (7 x 50 that have a 7.2° field of view) I could easily see the tail filling 1/3 of the field (so about 2.4 degrees). But I could imagine seeing about half the field filled with tail.