Space Shuttle Night Launch

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We can't just take a video of a night launch... We have to synchronize the NASA.gov coverage from my computer and the video from our TV and annotate it for clarity...

This clip does show the outstanding capabilities of our Sony cameras. In near darkness, using the 48x digital zoom (not something we normally never use), we tracked the shuttle well over 500 miles away!

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