I Launched A Camera Into Our Stratosphere!

[codykodes]

Hello,

 

Wasn't sure who this would interest, but I launched a weather balloon with a Canon A540 digital camera payload attached on September 5th, which was lost when the GPS device failed, then recovered by a farmer on Sept 21st, who then contacted me so I could retrieve it! The pictures are great, and just wanted to share my story. I am an aspiring engineer student who hopes to attend U Texas at Dallas in 2011.

 

You can view additional information at my website: www.aerialparade.com

 

Thanks for your time, and shoot me questions if you got em!

 

[Qfwfq]

Seems to be an emerging new hobby, this kind of thing.

 

http://www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/BSP/Space_Balloon.html

[Tormod]

Fantastic! Really nice pictures. Thanks for sharing! :eplane:

[Cyberia]

codykoes. Some great pictures there. Someone else was at it in today's newspaper:

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014310/Space-flight-The-700-mission-field-Herefordshire-revealed-stratospheric-images.html

 

 

I wondered whether it might be better to point the camera downwards, so get pictures of the Earth from many miles up, as the balloon drifts? And maybe some night pictures if you can get it to drift over heavily populated areas. Listen to the UFO reports and you'll be able to track where it's going.