Payload was a Progress cargo (M-04M) heading to the ISS.
At about 8:45 am (i.e. 1 hour before launch) , we arrived at sunrise...
...on an empty parking lot where standing more that 10 minutes by -17C with a slight northern breeze was a prowess. We just made few pictures of the rocket standing on the launch pad at about 1km distance before getting back and wait in the warm bus the end of the count down.
15 minutes before launch the attendance increased on parking lot and then after launch all people were trying to get the best angle:
"CS-2 uniforms" in action
other (polar?) uniforms but not from the team.
But at 9:45 , that is exactly hat we saw: A splendid show that just leaves you breathless.
This launch pad was visited last Saturday, refer to earlier note.
Around 10:00 am the show was over. Just a vanishing cloud (water vapor from the cryogenics?) in the sunny sky of the steppe.
The same cloud over the tracking station few minutes later masking the sun.
Note the different position of the left tracking antenna compared with picture#1 above.
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