We're not going up to see the launch tonight, because the probability is still only about 30%, last I heard, and we have to go to a company Christmas party down in Miami. But if anyone is planning to drive over there, don't expect to go in to Titusville:

Normally considered a great place to watch a launch, the main thoroughfare through the town will be closed in both directions this evening for the city's Annual Christmas Parade. Motorists should expect significant delays.

The weather improved dramatically and they lit that candle.

Yeah, I didn't have to worry about Titusvile, although I do appreciate the warning. I could see the shuttle from a hill near Lexington, Virginia. At least, I think I did; the light was reddish (near the horizon,) it didn't blink, and it was zipping Eastward at quite a clip.

I saw it from the courtyard of my apartment here in Winter Park. I even saw the booster rocket being dropped -- it looked like a little orange spark in the sky. It was quite spectacular -- the last shuttle launch I saw was in the daylight sometime last year (also in my neighborhood).

It was briefly visible in Miami.

Visible here in Gainesville FL from our back yard, even through leaves, after the 80 sec. mark. Booster separation was quite a sight, bright sparkles of orange falling from the white of the main engines.

I saw it from the Philadelphia suburbs. I had been told that it was possible to see a night launch to the ISS, and I know others who have seen it. This was the first time for me.

I was told to look about 20º above the horizon at about T+7 minutes. I watched the launch on the NASA feed on my computer, watched the SRBs separate, and at about T+4 I went outside.

After a brief false alarm with an airplane, I spotted it low in the SE sky. I observed it both naked eye and with binoculars. As bright as it was and at the speed it was moving across the sky, if it had been an airplane it would have been low enough that I would have seen red and green lights. I didn't.

The main engine exhaust appeared yellow instead of the blue that I was expecting. That can probably be explained by the thickness of the atmosphere low in the sky.

I think I saw the engine cutoff, then at least two or three bright flashes after that. When I went back inside, I watched the replays on the NASA feeds. There was a camera on the tank, and after engine cutoff, the picture went dark, then there were a couple of bright flashes as the shuttle separated. I suppose they were either the thrusters firing, or maybe strobe lights to aid in photographing the shuttle's underside.

It was very impressive from Orlando; the whole eastern sky glowed orange for the first five to ten seconds, and then the exhaust plume rose above the trees. It was easily visible until well after SRB separation - the SRBs were tiny points of light peeling away from the main engines' exhaust plume.

Caught it in binoculars from New Jersey, through low, broken clouds.